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Symptoms of Burnout First Thing to Recognize: It’s real! There is no “one size fits all” when it comes to burnout symptoms. Although we can’t always see them coming, there are some symptoms that seem to be more “obvious” when it comes to experiencing burnout such as: Anger, frustration and hopeless, powerlessness ETC. BUT the…

The Burnout Box     Burnout: It’s personal   It is helpful to think of your current situation as box of your construction (no blaming, just naming), with a floor, walls and a ceiling. The floor is your cumulative learning, experience and education. The walls consist of work environment, mental, physical, financial, spiritual and social elements.…

Breathing through Burnout   I think there’s a big component of both stress, burnout, and anxiety that can be fixed with breathing. There are two different breathing techniques I employ. I probably do this three to five times a day depending on how stressful the day gets, but I’ll just stop what I’m doing, and…

What is burnout costing you?      Most studies show that burned out physicians are about 10 to 15% less productive than your average physician. There are a number of studies that show that there’s increased malpractice risk, so one practice lawsuit can be $10’s or $100’s of $1000’s of dollars depending on your malpractice carrier…

Tick, tock, tick tock…The burnout clock is running.   The  longer burnout goes on, the harder it is to fix because you think it becomes a normal way of life. The longer it goes on, the more of your life has gone by. The longer it goes on, the more entrenched you are. It is more…

Are you living the life you intended? “I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life — full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended.” (Emphasis mine) ~Charles…

Are you ready to quit your job? “When people like their lives, and that includes work life, they’ll do a better job of taking care of themselves.”~ Jeffery Pfeffer   IS IT TIME TO PULL THE PLUG?   Our topic today will be one that hopefully you don’t get to this point, but we’re talking…

How to change your habits for good! “We first make our habits, then our habits make us.” ~John Dryden   What does burnout this have to do with habits? Well about 40% of your behavior and your actions throughout the day are controlled by habitual motion or habitual process. If we’re going to talk about…