Mindfulness helps us see how when we overuse this strength it feeds into burnout.  It also brings awareness to our beliefs –for instance, the belief that we must excel in everything we do.

Leading Through Burnout

How to Manage and Protect Your Energy

When energy is high, leaders are innovating and showing enthusiasm and optimism. In burnout, they’re still able to complete tasks and meet deadlines, but they’re less inquisitive. They lose their creative edge. Only when we are fully energized are we capable of being the best versions of ourselves. And actively managing our energy helps guard against burnout.

How To Manage and Protect Your Energy

Easing Burnout with Self-Kindness and Compassion

As leaders, we set high standards for ourselves, often taking on more than we can realistically handle or being self-critical when unable to live up to our own high standards of excellence. Mindfulness helps us set and honor intentions to practice self-care and set boundaries. That could mean taking a mental health day or taking a long weekend –including setting an away message so that we actually have the space to recover.

Feeling Burned Out - Re-establish a Foundation of Wellbeing

As a leader, you may find yourself pushing through burnout and exhaustion, perhaps fueled by caffeine, sugar, and adrenaline – over-riding the body’s signals for sleep, exercise, and healthy food. The body has its own intelligence and as you develop the skill of awareness, you learn to tune into what you need to feel your best.

Feeling Burned Out? Re-establishing a Foundation of Wellbeing

Are you feeling burned out and finding it hard to conceal

When we’re experiencing burnout, it’s hard to focus, find clarity, and the motivation, energy and confidence to accomplish all that needs to get done. Mindfulness helps us to choose where we place our attention and to connect with ourselves and others in a more authentic way.

Are You Feeling Burned Out and Finding it Hard to Conceal?

Countering burnout by connecting with others

Others look to leaders as a source of strength and steadiness, but in burnout, the ground beneath us feels less solid. The practice of mindfulness can help you forge a deeper connection with yourself and with others.

Countering Burnout by Connecting with Others

Setting boundaries - Guarding yourself from burnout

As leaders, the demand for our time and attention is ever-increasing. Setting boundaries is imperative to protect our physical and mental health, our families, and our ability to learn and grow as a leader. It can help us ward off and recover from burnout.

Setting Boundaries - Guarding Yourself from Burnout

Recovering from burnout - Reclaiming your enthusiasm and vitality

When we’re in the grips of burnout, we can lose our enthusiasm and sense of optimism. Perhaps that’s something you’ve experienced. No matter how passionate or how committed we are, we all have limits. To be at our best, we need time for recovery –ideally building moments of renewal into everyday life.

Leading Through Burnout

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