Balance & Burnout

14 minute read | Last updated 19-Jul-2018 |  Rant

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Good morning, everybody. How are you doing today? For those are you were watching a video stream hear? You see that there’s a little bit of a different look on outside about a beautiful green background, you know, you can probably hear a little bit of the bird that hopefully not so much of the construction little bit of chaos and they’re laying fiber in the neighborhood.

I’m on Tuesday at 8 on Wednesday friend of mine in actually pointing. At least. I mean it from the cab from the airport or whatever the case may be in there were absolutely correct balance in general and I think security Community has a real challenge around bounce em around mental health and it’s somewhat understandable, but it also is not It’s a tricky subject and I think it’s one that we don’t talk about often, you know mental health in general.

I’m work-life balance and these are difficult things, especially when you’re just starting out and then you don’t have seniority and you feel like you need to adhere to a certain idea of work as well. As other people’s ideas that they’re putting on top of you and I know that sounds kind of weird but a lot of times I know there’s so much work that needs to be done.

You need to be doing 12 or 14 hour days works for a little while. But after a certain amount of time you start to burn out you need to Dallas you need to figure out what you do to relax how you enjoy self care and dealing with your family.

If you have one and you’re nurturing those relationships and with partner with your friends, all the stuff is super super important and I think it’s really easy to lose perspective on it. And I don’t think that’s what happened this week for me. It was simply the matter of had.

Radio call him on Monday morning stories up before the crack of dawn on a to get down to the basketball game. Despite my aging years. I am still playing in our league here in town. I’m with people very very much younger than I and it is a stark weekly reminder out of how much I’m not paying attention to caring for my own self and making sure that I’m in better shape and eating better and end in consistently exercising and though I do get out of each week in at least a few quad down and up and down the court.

I’m trying to make a contribution and it’s a fun social action early morning broadcast late night game with an early morning flight a New York was supposed to be in and out of supposed to be back in time to leave the babysitter to let my partner go to hockey did not happen because I’m weather interesting thing as if you are at the summit you probably saw the announcement for the show.

The front entrance is closed closed in the roof is closed because there’s too much rain. Doctor on north of the Canada spending the night in New York to have dinner. I’m with a bunch of other community Heroes. How much is a really engaging and reinvigorating conversation? It was just a couple days long days and not feeling fantastic sleeping in a hotel room in expected leaves and had to rearrange a bunch of schedule stuff leads to the subject of all times.

They are just running nonstop. They’re working long hours. I’m in an office. They’re not taking enough down time and it sort of around this illusion of law. And while big vacations are great about a couple in a week plus plan myself way to the summer, but you need to take a little days here.

And there are you need to counterbalance of like I was on a trip the last two days so I’m only going to make sure this time to check my email a little bit and keep some things moving today, but no deal full 8 hours of somebody. You need to be able to have that self-awareness of understanding how you recharge and and understand that you were not at full strength and you need to recharge and I think it’s it’s something I struggle with all the time, but I feel I’m ten times better than I was 5 years ago a hundred times better at it than I was at the start of my career.

Of course. I was a much younger man then so it wasn’t nearly as critical. But if I look back and realize if I had started teaching myself and habits the right habits to figure out that like I’ve been pushing really really hard. I need to pull back a little bit and I need you to take an extra day here and afternoon here or just, you know, sit down and read a book for 4 1/2.

If you take a little mini break, it doesn’t have to be anything massive the fight started myself those habits much earlier in my career. I think I would be much better off and I think in the community in general we see stream examples of this and we see a lot of subtle examples that we don’t necessarily call out and it’s not your responsibility.

We need to be more aware of the fact that we are in high-stress jobs. We are in jobs where there’s a lot of pressure where there’s a lot of inteck in general. There is a lot of this conception of like you need to be working hard all the time.

You need to be just crushing it Non-Stop and I think it’s it’s responsible to incumbent on us that surrounds a like it’s okay to take some self time. It’s okay to take some down time and to just wait a minute. I need an afternoon to set up enjoy the birds maybe a beverage or have a great dinner with friends.

That’s really reinvigorating or go for a run. Or all of those things I think about is absolutely critical kush for me. I really seen this over the last let’s say five or six years of my career. When I do that I end up doing much better work my work quality increases significantly and I get more done in less time when I’m better balance.

And I think that’s a really hard thing for people to graphs with the grass lifx to turn off. What do I need to put 8 hours and better hours. Are you basically getting frustrated and pounding your head on the keyboard? That’s not a good use of your time recharge refresh get a new perspective sit down in that one hour.

You’re going to just pump out the gold that is a huge huge up, but it takes a really long time to get there and I don’t feel I’m there. I feel I’m still struggling with this all the time and but I’m trying to put the support structure in place with friends with family in order to help me make those choices easier so that I am more refreshed.

Able to deal with two long days in a row and better and working progress and like everything to do with Valance with mental health with self-care. It’s always a continuous practice. It’s always a continuous work-in-progress. But you know, it’s something that we need to be talking but we need to get out there and we need to recognize that it is an issue better results if we pay attention to it.

What do you think? Hit me up online here Mark NCAA in any Community or a me at Marquette. CA by how do you deal with that was how do you find valence? How do you tackle any mental health issues on burnout? What are your tips and tricks have you struggled with it back from your father teams are working with love to keep this conversation going as always.

I hope they were set up for a fantastic day. Hopefully one that might be outside and enjoying some beautiful weather wherever you are. I will talk to you online and see you on the show. Good morning, everybody. How are you doing today? For those are you were watching a video stream hear? You see that there’s a little bit of a different look on outside about a beautiful green background, you know, you can probably hear a little bit of the bird that hopefully not so much of the construction little bit of chaos and they’re laying fiber in the neighborhood.

I’m on Tuesday at 8 on Wednesday friend of mine in actually pointing. At least. I mean it from the cab from the airport or whatever the case may be in there were absolutely correct balance in general and I think security Community has a real challenge around bounce em around mental health and it’s somewhat understandable, but it also is not It’s a tricky subject and I think it’s one that we don’t talk about often, you know mental health in general.

I’m work-life balance and these are difficult things, especially when you’re just starting out and then you don’t have seniority and you feel like you need to adhere to a certain idea of work as well. As other people’s ideas that they’re putting on top of you and I know that sounds kind of weird but a lot of times I know there’s so much work that needs to be done.

You need to be doing 12 or 14 hour days works for a little while. But after a certain amount of time you start to burn out you need to Dallas you need to figure out what you do to relax how you enjoy self care and dealing with your family.

If you have one and you’re nurturing those relationships and with partner with your friends, all the stuff is super super important and I think it’s really easy to lose perspective on it. And I don’t think that’s what happened this week for me. It was simply the matter of had.

Radio call him on Monday morning stories up before the crack of dawn on a to get down to the basketball game. Despite my aging years. I am still playing in our league here in town. I’m with people very very much younger than I and it is a stark weekly reminder out of how much I’m not paying attention to caring for my own self and making sure that I’m in better shape and eating better and end in consistently exercising and though I do get out of each week in at least a few quad down and up and down the court.

I’m trying to make a contribution and it’s a fun social action early morning broadcast late night game with an early morning flight a New York was supposed to be in and out of supposed to be back in time to leave the babysitter to let my partner go to hockey did not happen because I’m weather interesting thing as if you are at the summit you probably saw the announcement for the show.

The front entrance is closed closed in the roof is closed because there’s too much rain. Doctor on north of the Canada spending the night in New York to have dinner. I’m with a bunch of other community Heroes. How much is a really engaging and reinvigorating conversation? It was just a couple days long days and not feeling fantastic sleeping in a hotel room in expected leaves and had to rearrange a bunch of schedule stuff leads to the subject of all times.

They are just running nonstop. They’re working long hours. I’m in an office. They’re not taking enough down time and it sort of around this illusion of law. And while big vacations are great about a couple in a week plus plan myself way to the summer, but you need to take a little days here.

And there are you need to counterbalance of like I was on a trip the last two days so I’m only going to make sure this time to check my email a little bit and keep some things moving today, but no deal full 8 hours of somebody. You need to be able to have that self-awareness of understanding how you recharge and and understand that you were not at full strength and you need to recharge and I think it’s it’s something I struggle with all the time, but I feel I’m ten times better than I was 5 years ago a hundred times better at it than I was at the start of my career.

Of course. I was a much younger man then so it wasn’t nearly as critical. But if I look back and realize if I had started teaching myself and habits the right habits to figure out that like I’ve been pushing really really hard. I need to pull back a little bit and I need you to take an extra day here and afternoon here or just, you know, sit down and read a book for 4 1/2.

If you take a little mini break, it doesn’t have to be anything massive the fight started myself those habits much earlier in my career. I think I would be much better off and I think in the community in general we see stream examples of this and we see a lot of subtle examples that we don’t necessarily call out and it’s not your responsibility.

We need to be more aware of the fact that we are in high-stress jobs. We are in jobs where there’s a lot of pressure where there’s a lot of inteck in general. There is a lot of this conception of like you need to be working hard all the time.

You need to be just crushing it Non-Stop and I think it’s it’s responsible to incumbent on us that surrounds a like it’s okay to take some self time. It’s okay to take some down time and to just wait a minute. I need an afternoon to set up enjoy the birds maybe a beverage or have a great dinner with friends.

That’s really reinvigorating or go for a run. Or all of those things I think about is absolutely critical kush for me. I really seen this over the last let’s say five or six years of my career. When I do that I end up doing much better work my work quality increases significantly and I get more done in less time when I’m better balance.

And I think that’s a really hard thing for people to graphs with the grass lifx to turn off. What do I need to put 8 hours and better hours. Are you basically getting frustrated and pounding your head on the keyboard? That’s not a good use of your time recharge refresh get a new perspective sit down in that one hour.

You’re going to just pump out the gold that is a huge huge up, but it takes a really long time to get there and I don’t feel I’m there. I feel I’m still struggling with this all the time and but I’m trying to put the support structure in place with friends with family in order to help me make those choices easier so that I am more refreshed.

Able to deal with two long days in a row and better and working progress and like everything to do with Valance with mental health with self-care. It’s always a continuous practice. It’s always a continuous work-in-progress. But you know, it’s something that we need to be talking but we need to get out there and we need to recognize that it is an issue better results if we pay attention to it.

What do you think? Hit me up online here Mark NCAA in any Community or a me at Marquette. CA by how do you deal with that was how do you find valence? How do you tackle any mental health issues on burnout? What are your tips and tricks have you struggled with it back from your father teams are working with love to keep this conversation going as always.

I hope they were set up for a fantastic day. Hopefully one that might be outside and enjoying some beautiful weather wherever you are. I will talk to you online and see you on the show.