Confessions of a Burnt Out Over-Achiever

I listened as my mum (a psychiatrist) explained that burnout isn’t just a thing that happens to overworked people in stressful jobs. It can happen to anyone when work stops feeling meaningful, enjoyable or manageable. When you’re burned out, you feel overwhelmed and undermotivated. You feel like you can’t keep up the pace, no matter how hard you tr

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I recently happened upon a short article, “Top Five Regrets of the Dying” by Bronnie Ware, who spent many years nursing people who had gone home to die. Their most common regret? “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.” Their second most common? “I wish I didn’t work so hard.” There are two way

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These days my work is very Non-Sacral. As an entrepreneur of a multi-6 figure business, it can be really challenging to not work all the time. There is always, always more work to be done. But I have learned to delegate to staff so we can share the load, and I have surrendered to the truth that my rest is far more powerful than my work. If I don’t

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