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When Living For The Weekend Becomes A Sign Of Job Burnout
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Understanding burnout
The main reason for being burnout isn’t necessarily being overworked. It can also come from being under-challenged.
Burnout is chronic workplace stress that can result in feelings of being drained and being increasingly disengaged and cynical about your work.
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Burnout and your free time
You can even develop bad habits on the weekend that are making you feel even more drained and overwhelmed on Monday morning.
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Living too much for the weekend
When people split their week up and start thinking of work as bad and the weekend as all good, that contributes to the problem.
Bring your weekend into your week, and find engagement elsewhere: if that's when you connect with friends and family, find a way to make it a part of your workdays as well. Also, choose to engage during your free days with activities such as volunteering, arts or even starting a side hustle.
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“When people say, ‘I hate Mondays,’ or ‘Thank God it’s Friday,’ these are cute little sayings, but what you’re telling yourself is, ’80% of my life sucks."
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Venting about work all the time
Constantly complaining about your terrible colleagues and your boss on the weekend can feel like a stress release in the moment, but in the long-run, this rumination can make you feel even worse.
Gain self-awareness and reframe your thinking. “What can I do about this?” or "How can I learn from this going forward?" are good questions to use.
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Not engaging with the world
When you’re experiencing burnout, your tunnel vision of work, work, work can lead to trouble engaging in the world outside of it on the weekends.
Be intentional. This doesn’t mean you can’t relax on your couch and watch movies, but be thoughtful about this plan.
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Technology controls you
When your phone is nearby, you may find yourself checking email apps and work notifications mindlessly to check in.
First, recognize where this need to be available may be coming from. Then create boundaries about when you’re available, and share those expectations. Even if you need to be reachable, you can be intentional about how much work you allow to take up your weekend.
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Take responsibility
When you trace your burnout to a systemic toxic source, you need to decide whether staying at this job outweighs what it is doing to your mental health.
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The signs of burnout
- You dread going to work in the morning.
- You show up late or find reasons to leave early.
- You feel bored or don’t want to engage with the work when you’re there.
- You’re ...
Find friends outside of work
If your only friends are your friends at work, it'll be more challenging to avoid work on evenings and weekends. If you do have coworkers as close friends, consider setting some boundaries around work talk.
Try to avoid getting drawn into office drama, as it will increase the time you spend talking and thinking about work.
Speak up
Speak up when your workload is too much. Tell your boss if you are stretched too thin or when you regularly work too many hours. Talk about what you can reasonably get done in a week.
Also, don't say yes to everything. If you have a hard time saying no, don't respond immediately. Instead say, "Let me get back to you", or, "Let me think about that."
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Burnout is not the same as tired
Burnout is job-induced depression.
When you suffer from burnout,
- you become chronically exhausted;
- you become cynical and detached from...
3 Secrets to avoid burnout
- Be Optimistic. Confronted by a bad situation, optimists perceive it as a challenge and try harder.
- Find Meaning In What You Do. When you find true meaning in your work — when it’s not a job, it’s a calling — you don’t burn out.
Double Down On Relationships. Those who increase their social activity when things get hard handles stress the best.
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Pointless Criticism
In the context of poor communication, criticizing is when you knock someone down for the wrong reasons: to hurt someone, to vent your frustrations or to boost your ego.
It’s easy enoug...
Blaming
When you blame someone, you take any responsibility off of yourself and put it on them.
It’s understandable that you want to express your dissatisfaction with something. But sometimes you need to express it in order to find a solution, not to point singers.
Ineffective Complaining
Complaining is exhausting because it puts pressure on the other person.
Complaining often results in the other person feeling as if they should somehow “fix” the problem or else just get away from the complaining.