I am easily a workaholic who is narrow-visioned when it comes to work.
I intentionally try to create more time where I do nothing but be lazy. It has not been the easiest because I always feel like "I am wasting away productive hours."
I am curious to learn from everyone, how they manage BURNOUT.
ps: i really need your insight
I personally don't manage it well. I've learned to enjoy it probably to my detriment.
@santos gave a great talk at Startup Day a year or two ago where he recommends taking a 4-day weekend when you begin to feel yourself losing agency:
A 4-day weekend won't be a bad idea. (but I'll still work anyway)
I guess it is to go hard or go harder till the wheels fall off
😅🤣🤣 Funnily enough that's me currently with working out: 2× a day, every day, full throttle for 1 - 2 hours per session...
Maybe go offgrid and leave the computer at home, removing the option to work.
i guess this is the way to go... I will try this more often. thank you
For me, I have learned that rest is productive.
How do you deal with the mental framing, that 'rest is productive' when it feels like wasting away valuable hours
Man, the most valuable time is time spent on yourself, anyone who says otherwise is a moron.
One can also be productive for themselves :P the mind can also frame it that way. Sometimes it's true, sometimes it's burnout cope
To me, it isn't a waste. Nothing is. I am a super productive person, whether I am moving or not. The biggest manifestation starts in a still mind.
I reflect on The Pale Blue Dot image of the earth taken from the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1990 from 4 billion miles away. It helps me when I am worried about relatively trivial matters in the grand scheme of things. It helps me reflect on how little time we have on this earth when considered against the billions of years the universe has existed and will continue to exist once I have left.
I'd like to spend that infinitesimally tiny amount of time with loved ones and smile and laugh as much as possible.
This is just an amazing way to look at it and reframe the mind
I find that going on walks helps free the mind of burdens even if for a brief amount of time. Don’t work more than you need to at your job — any work can almost always wait until the next day. If you have children, you realize quickly how fleeting time really is when looking back at photos.
Thank you for this kind advice
I find that volunteering at a farm is the best way for the mind to defragment. The virtual world is chaotic and it's easy to diverge in all directions. Nature is a chaotic system and farms are a labor of love in getting fruit out of the chaos. No joke, go look for a farm and help them to harvest, weed, build stuff, be out in nature and get your hands in the dirt.
The city doesn't have a farm, how do i manage? Or, will setting up a vertical farm work?
Search around and see if you have anything not too far away. Maybe you could volunteer on weekends.
Otherwise, look around for anything nature related! Hikes, kayaking/canoeing, etc.
Getting in nature is the goal!
thank you, will do this
I am wasting away productive hours -same with me bro I need answer too
we all are
Stop doing things you don’t enjoy.
It’s that simple, you are just over complicating things.
Even things you enjoy, can take a toll on you when you do it for a long time.
What do you do then?
Just because you used to enjoy doing something, doesn’t mean that you enjoy it any more. Or maybe, you temporarily don’t enjoy doing it anymore.
Either way… stop doing things you don’t enjoy.
I'm terrible at this too.
I went from being super productive, managing multiple projects and live systems to just doom-scrolling all day and wasting my days on easy dopamine.
I don't even enjoy basketball anymore which was my exercise 2-3 times a week.
We are all recovering Burnout victim
A little exercise but nothing too hard. Just to keep the body moving while recovering.
Ok, will remember this
I have this problem too. If I’m not doing something I feel like I’m wasting my time but constantly doing something leads to burnout. I’ve tried scheduling time for fun activities and putting them in my to do list but then it feels like a chore instead of fun so that doesn’t really help.
this is always the issue
That's my secret: I'm always on burnout
https://m.stacker.news/48378
lol
Make time for exercise. Going to the gym is HIGHLY productive, and at least for me, relaxes me.
I am looking at exploring this option
Do not listen to the inner voices that you are burning out. There is no such thing. It will just eat you inside out if you get yourself inside that rabbit hole. People most probably are just gas lighting themselves into oblivion by telling themselves that they are burning out.