Burnout & Personal Boundaries

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Sometimes our days get so hectic, and we forget to slow down enough to take care of ourselves. We erase our personal boundaries and believe if we just give more, all will be okay. But this mindset can lead to burnout.
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Anne Helen Petersen, author of Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, writes:

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​“…the burnout condition is more than just addiction to work. It’s an alienation from the self and from desire. If you subtract your ability to work, who are you? Is there a self left to excavate?

​We aren’t infinite creatures of energy. We need to have limits so we can refill. Which led me to think about personal boundaries. Then I asked myself these four questions:

1. What stirs my imagination, and what depletes it?
   
2.  Where’s the passion in what I do?
   
3.  How do I reset myself?
   
4. Why is it so hard to slow down and take longer breaks?

I turned this into a journal writing exercise to see where my inner wisdom would lead me.

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