5 keys to fall into burnout quickly

(and why I fell into the trap ... again!)

It has already happened to you to know everything you need to do to have a good lifestyle and keep your energy ... and in the end do everything you should not do?

To finish exhausted, rinsed, without any energy or motivation, even for what is the most important to you to do?

To no longer have the desire or energy?

To be totally discouraged, to ask you again if you will get to get up and how long it would take this time to get better.

It happened to me recently, despite all the path of resilience and healing already traveled. I was “supposed to have understood and know how to avoid falling back into such a state.” Nope ?

Do you think I learned the lesson? Yes and no.

I fall less low than before, which is already a victory to celebrate, but as you know (or not), the healing process is slow and cyclical and the same problems tend to go up again and again. And that’s completely normal. With each cycle, another layer of your soul lives a healing time and it often takes several cycles to do a good job in depth.

But enough about me. I'm going to reveal the key points that make me fall back into exhaustion, and if I don't be careful, very quickly. I want to help you with this article not to dive my head first into these traps that take us so easily.

🗝️ Key number one: Do not listen to your body

Your body speaks to you in full of ways that go from discomfort, from pain to pain. Your body is not your enemy, but your ally (yes, I have learned this lesson hard! Listen to it and respect it! It will warn you before the limit is crossed.

✨ Tip: make a little check regularly, one or more times a few minutes. Breathe and feel what's going on in your body and listen to what he tells you. We tend to numb our sensations and if you listen to it, it will need to shout less.

🗝️ Key number two: Do not set priorities

You surely have a lot of things to do, whether at home, at work, with your spouse or your family, colleagues, friends who ask you for services and a thousand and one things you have to think throughout the day. Without prioritization of what you want and can do, you will quickly find yourself overwhelmed by the requests of each other. Sort between what is really urgent - priority - important - which is to be done, but without pressure.

✨ Advice: By really thinking about it, most things are neither urgent nor priority. Take care of these things and the rest, do it according to the energy you have available. And if toys or dust drag at your place, that all the files are not made perfectly, that you could not help your friend or neighbor to move or do an unpreted babysitting, it does not matter. Your mental and physical health passes first.

🗝️ Key number three: Take care of you last

This is a simple principle: if you are empty, you can't give. Your priority is therefore to feed yourself with things, food, relationships, activities that fill you and do you good. Start your day with a time for you. It is your responsibility to take care of yourself.

✨ Tip: Start your day with a time for you. Established a morning routine that does you good, whether with meditation, sport (it can be dance or something sweet), write a few pages in your newspaper, write the three lenses you want to accomplish in During the day, listen to an inspiring podcast. And prioritically blocks this time that is sacred for you. Perhaps you will have to get up earlier for that, but it's important to start your day with what makes you feel good.

🗝️ Key number four: Not to say no

By saying “yes” to everything, you tell yourself “no” to you. By not putting limits to what you do for others for fear of their reaction, to lose their love or friendship or to be judged negatively, you get lost a little yourself. In the end, you will do things, but reluctantly, which is not good for anyone.

✨ Advice: before answering a request, breathing and asking yourself the question internally. Listen to your body. Look if it’s a real yes, a “maybe, but not at that time” or a “no”. May your yes be yes, let your not be no. Thus, you will be fully free in your choice and happy in the choice you have made.

Bonus tip: don't justify your "no", you don't have to justify your refusal, you can just say that you have something else planned. No need to explain or justify, it would give your interlocutor reasons to argue.

🗝️ Key number five: Do not get a break

Personally, I hate starting an activity without going to the end, the result. The concern is that often, it is impossible to complete the task in a given time. And by making long time slots, I am quickly exhausting myself.

It is crucial to match breaks, even when "you are still fresh" or "you can still do it a bit". A break before you are really tired will allow you to go further.

✨ Advice: determine your activity time and put yourself an alarm after 20 min or 1 hour maximum. Then take a short break, if only 5 minutes to stretch, breathe, take a few steps, drink a little. If possible too, varies activities: an intellectual activity range, followed by a manual or physical activity range, you will see that you can then do more things at the same time.

You will have noticed it, we can easily get trapped with a bunch of "good reasons" to throw your head the first.

For almost a month, I haven't posted anything on social networks. It's a bit of a vacuum. I was putting an enormous pressure to produce content at a rate that algorithms would like by marketing advice. But I couldn't do it. I spent more time on networks than painting. The priorities were not in the right places.

So, I stopped everything. I just found the pleasure of drawing, exploring. I see my priorities again and especially the time I will put to do things, at a slower pace that suits me better. I'm going to be over the false belief that I will never succeed if I respect my own rhythm and build little by little, with respect for my body. 😊

I hope this article will have reminded you of putting priorities in the right places and above all to take care of yourself.

And you, do you already have a burn-out experience? What are the keys that helped you get out? Share him in the comments.