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One of the hardest parts of bouncing back from creative burnout is dealing with the nagging voice inside your head.
The self-critic is something we all face. At times it can get so loud that it drowns out our ability to push through.
There’s a simple tool you can use to silence your inner critic: deadlines. We’re talking about short, yet strict deadlines. Let’s say you need to write a chapter of a book. Instead of sitting down and banging your head against your screen for hours on end, break it up into tiny increments and set tight deadlines.
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Sometimes you need to tackle a problem head-on. With creative burnout, it’s often better to take a side-on approach.
While your first impulse will most likely be to dive back into what you’re used to, that can quickly backfire. It’s easy to overstretch your limits when you ...
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So what resources can you limit? While there are many options, the most powerful resource is your time.
Time management and focus are some of the most important creativity tools we wield. When you limit your time spent on specific tasks, yo...
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The cycle of burnout is especially bad for people who need to be more creative at work . Your ideas were what made people pile more and more work on you in the first place. And it’s easy to fall back into those patterns the second you feel ready to return to work.
Coming back from b...
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When your mental resources are limited, you need to make sure they’re going to the right tasks.
Burnout decimates your motivation, making working on projects you’re uninterested in an agonizing process. Dr. Christina Maslach, one of the pioneers of occupati...
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To rebuild your creative confidence post-burnout, you need to rebuild that identity in your work. That means reigniting your spark with creative tasks.
As Emily Haines, lead singer of the band Metric writes:
“The only time that I feel things start...
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As Arianna Huffington wrote : “Nothing kills creativity faster than burnout."
Creativity depends on an openness to new ideas, freedom to explore, and finding purpose in your work. But all those qualities disappear when you’re burnt out.
“As a met...
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Unrelated creative tasks can help inspire you, but there are also other ways to fill your “creative well.” The architect and designer Emily Fischer writes:
“You have to feed yourself creatively. You have to give yourself that ...
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Rescuing your time can help you with this in a number of ways.
First, you can set a daily goal for total time worked and get an alert when you go over. For example, setting goals for total device time, time spent on distracting apps, and mobile time so you know when you're ...
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Burnout occurs when job demands consistently outweigh the resources available.
In other words, are you trying to squeeze too much out of the limited time/energy/motivation you have? If so, the first thing you need to do is to set proper limits.
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Just because you’re facing creative burnout doesn’t mean your work expectations change.
As Schaufeli continues:
“Over time, employees experiencing burnout lose the capacity to provide the intense contributions that make an impact. If they continu...
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For example, if you need to write a chapter of a book, instead of sitting down and looking at a black page for hours on end, break it up into tiny increments and set tight deadlines (such as 250 words every 20 minutes).
Not only will you not have time to become se...
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