I attended a networking event last night hosted by @ATX PX (Austin Texas, People Experience). Thank you to the hearts that fuel hosting these events!
I have only discovered this amazing group of professionals recently, but it's been a refreshing community where passion is on full display for locals that adore their vocation!
And the speakers they line up are second to none!
Meet: JJ Ruescas ?(Human Optimization Strategist) who unpacked a powerful presentation "Shift Left #Recovery: How to avoid #Burnout and Achieve Optimal Performance".
Talk about, "Just what the doctor ordered" as we skid towards the finish line of 2024!
He struck me a living embodiment of why building #rest and recovery into our #stressful existences is vital.
While burnout can occur at any time throughout the fiscal year, #Q4 is the perfect storm, isn't it?
Heightened workload, yearend deadlines, performance reviews and strategic planning and forecasts for the upcoming year often put the people that run the place feeling like we are working on empty. And when you couple that with all the fun that October through January has planned for us socially, personally and professionally it can feel like a tsunami.
So, I felt particularly lucky to be in the audience learning golden nugget after golden nugget of wisdom refilling my tank (and my backup tank for that matter) with great ideas I could immediately put to good use!
He gave us a lot to mull over. The timing bordered on divine for me personally.
I felt a little convicted when he pointed out that the term recovery is very commonly associated with addiction (all but confirming my fear that I'm a #workaholic). And some of the statistics he shared were frankly alarming.
The final thought of the evening brought us back to an earlier part of JJ's professional journey in the #software industry. He showed us a before and after chart where #engineers improved and evolved their standard operating procedure. Many #softwareengineers now build #testing into a product launch timeline each step throughout the process. Due to that simple intentional planned pause, they discover bugs and address them ASAP, AND deliver better on-time products than when they formerly reserved testing at the end of a project timeline. He wanted us to build recovery into our routines in the same manner, sidestepping burnout using that same principle.
I took a ton of notes, but he's got a podcast, and my advice is to give him a follow, too.
Thank you to everyone that orchestrated the evening! It was awesome!
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