3 Signs of Feeling Burned Out – Motivational Monday

Burnout is described as “in a state of physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress”. We’ve all been there at one point or another, where you start to feel drained and dissatisfied with your daily existence. There’s so much going on, so many projects and tasks that need to be completed, so much progress you could be making, and there are issues at home… Just the perfect storm of stressful topics to make you feel small and inadequate. If this is something you’ve experienced or you feel like right now, my friend, you may be experiencing burnout.

I wanted to make a quick list of signs you should be looking for – indicators that you need to take action!

1. Simple tasks become a grind
   
   There is an email that needs to be sent, a form to be filled out, or a meeting to attend that becomes MONUMENTAL. It’s a struggle to type out a 300 letter email, or you can’t put information together for the meeting.
   SOLUTION: Meet with your peers and prioritize. This is an amazing way to communicate that you may be overloaded.  Having
2.  

   Exhausted and Distracted

   When the workday ends, and home life begins, you may be so tired or worn out that you don’t enjoy your free time. Instead of spending enjoying quality time with family or even doing chores, it’s easier to lie around the house and think “What’s the point”
   SOLUTION: Unplug. When your day ends, your working mind ends. Instead of sitting on the couch dreading the sunrise, wake up early and enjoy it.  My point is, get some good sleep, relax, and get out of the misery. It can be difficult, but like all things, the first steps are the worst. After that, it only gets better.

3. Negative Self-Worth
   
   You may have a meeting or a task coming up in the next few hours that you do not feel prepared for. In some cases, you may not even feel qualified to sit with your peers. Quality work begins to give way to feelings of self-doubt.
   SOLUTION: Take a step back and acknowledge this FACT: You made it to your station because of the great things you have produced. You are in these meetings, you have better responsibilities because you have proven to be a go-to person and you can continue to do so.

 

Don’t let burnout make you dread another beautiful day on this planet. Take steps now to address your discontent.

 

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Matt Morris
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I Don’t Want to be Average – Motivational Monday

The capacity to strengthen and increase your hunger is the one common denominator amongst the most successful people.  I believe that’s the single most important element that separates the quality of people’s lives. It’s not just the ability to have hunger, but to sustain it.

The super successful don’t stop once they hit their targets. They simply reset and go again. Anytime you stop reaching for massive success, the next thing, you start settling in, that’s when you start having problems.

The comfort zone is dangerous. When you’re comfortable, you are most dangerous. You should never feel comfortable. You should be happy, and dissatisfied. Most people are hungry to achieve a certain amount, make a certain amount of money, and then they get comfortable and relax, or they get a certain level of fitness and then they relax. But if you can find within yourself the part of you that you want more, you want more of yourself, you want to make a bigger difference, you want to do something more than there day is today and that you don’t get satisfied.

If anyone ever tells you, “Hey look, you know what? just be satisfied with what you’ve got.” Don’t believe them, get them away from you. Don’t believe them, get them away from you. You should never be satisfied with what you’ve got. Because the attempt to get more makes you into something better.

Only those who have given up on greatness, would settle for average. We often hear people say, “I just want to be comfortable.” Don’t let anybody tell you, “Hey man you know, you should just be happy with…” No.

That is very dangerous to consider the idea of comfort. Such comfort mentality is what sets entrepreneurs and businesses apart. It’s what makes people great, is saying, “I don’t want to be average.”

If you don’t grow, you’re dying. If you do not expand your business, expand your family, expand your life, if you don’t push to grow, you’re dying. And what you have will be taken. You should double your business. Triple it. I’m trying to tell you something, that its true, and it’s true for me and it’s true for you, you can get anything you want. Be obsessed over your future, be consumed by the possibilities. The ambitious should never apologize, for the only people that criticize them are the people that have given up. Get excited, be excited, stay excited, and never settle.

 

 

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