This is how burnout feels…
Shiva Roofeh
Facilitator, Trainer, Learning Design Specialist | Leadership & Cultural Intelligence | TEDx Speaker | Pirate
This is how burnout feels…
*DISCLAIMER: I am not a mental health specialist, the content of this newsletter is from my own experience and learnings. The goal of this newsletter is to explore the connection between chronic mental, emotional, and physical stress with our concept and approach to time.?
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Have you ever experienced this?
You enter the office, already feeling agitated before the day has even started…
You’re staring at your screen looking at that last email, that you’ve now had to re-read maybe 10x because you couldn’t focus to type out a reply… Or you’re just too agitated to reply… Or you just don’t have the energy…
Your ideas are depleted and you’re just going with the motions because you can’t think of anything else to do…
Well, Curious Corporate Rebel… you might be approaching (or are in) burnout.
A few (very important ) notes here for y’all:
If you’re like the leaders and teams I train and design programs for, most of the time, they don’t even realize that they’re burnt out…?
(Their bodies, souls, and minds need rest, healthy stimulation, community, and purpose… or just getting the hell out of that job.)
Instead of saying they’re burnt-out, they go into the tangible things about how they’re feeling…
In our current work culture, productivity and ‘grinding’ have programmed us to believe that…
WORK = LIFE, LIFE = WORK.
Work becomes everything we do.
Work becomes everything we talk about.
Work becomes our ‘guiding light’ because it gives us some sense of purpose and strokes our ego.
What this does, however, is?
We end up selling ourselves...?
Our time…?
Our identity…
Our sense of personal value…?
We sell all of this to the highest bidder.
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The lie that we don’t have ‘enough time’
So we have WORK = LIFE, LIFE = WORK
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And we also have TIME = MONEY?
Under this socially constructed “rule” of oppression, any moment of not working is a waste. The more time we work, the more money we make, and the more valuable we are.?
But that’s just not true.?
At the tangible level, most of us are not getting paid overtime y’all! Working more hours does NOT mean making more money for most of us.?
At the social level, working more hours does nothing to make you a more valuable member of society. In many ways, it just takes you out of society altogether. The hours you spend at work are hours you are not spending…
How much time is that added together?!
Ok, I’ve got a challenge and an activity for you - take out a piece of paper and draw out 6 different buckets.
The 6 buckets are:
Now, I want you to divide out the hours you spend on each bucket. Is one bucket taking up more of your time than you realize? Is there a false sense of urgency that keeps you feeding one bucket rather than the other?
Most of the time, we don’t realize that our work bucket takes up so much of our time - mainly because we’ve filled it with more projects, small ‘urgent’ requests (that actually take a lot of time), and other ‘emergency’ requests…
And it’s not that there’s NO time… it’s actually because our allocation of it, prioritization of it, and concept of it are skewed (towards work).
But what if Curious Rebel, we challenged that ‘secret rule’ around time?
Instead of leaning into corporate work culture, a false sense of urgency, and lack…
What if we had so much fucking time to waste?
Instead of reacting because of our ‘lack of time’ - we had all the time in the world to think, intentionally respond, make space for innovation and creativity… For building community and being a real and valuable member of our society and communities.?
What about that? Let me know, could you waste a little more time but find a little more joy and pleasure?
From your fellow #CuriousRebel ,
Shiva ??
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1 年Such an important topic and if we believe the World Health Organization, by 2030 it will be the nr. issue we have to deal with. To me time is all about prioritime :) ... we are born as human beings, we are programmed to be human doers, to fulfill expectations of our parents, school, society, culture, work and they become our own expectations, and instead of learning to slow down, which often is labeled as being lazy, we learn to move with that fast pace! We always have a choice, I believe we have to undo a lot of patterns and also learn how to really just BE and regain a balance between being and doing! It would solve a lot of mental issues and also burnout.