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Burnout can happen when we have so much stress or dissatisfaction going on in our lives and in our minds. And there are sources of burnout that can easily fatigue you and keep you from doing your best in your everyday life.

To prevent a burnout, you have to reduce your stress levels and get to the root of your problems by: Practicing mindfulness; Taking daily breaks; practicing meditation daily; Doing a hobby during your free time; Finding out why you are burned out; Being more satisfied with your work, focus less on perfectionism; Tracking your burnout healing progress; Setting your priorities in order; Developing your skills to make yourself more marketable to employers; And taking care of your body

Below are some of the methods you can do to prevent burnout:

1. Practice Mindfulness

Be mindful of what’s going on around you at present. Don’t think about the future or the past. Just sit down, focus on what’s going on, focus on what you are doing and focus on what your body is doing, right now. That way, the focus is off of the negative thoughts that you might tend to have cycled in your head throughout the day. Also, it’s a good way to reduce anxiety and a good way to give your brain a break from thinking so much.

2. Take Daily Breaks

Take a break from the work you are doing or from the life that you are living. That way, you will spend more time with yourself and reflect on how you feel about stuff. And it will refresh your mind and help you look at things again from a newer perspective.

3. Practice Meditation Daily

This is where you sit down in a quiet place, take deep breaths, and focus on what’s going on around you in the present and also to attend to whatever you feel if those thoughts do pop up. Doing this for five minutes a day, daily, is relaxing and is something that you can do to put your focus on something else for a change other than what is stressing you out. And maybe, after meditation, you can get back to the problem with refreshed and relaxed eyes now that you have relaxed a little.

4. Do a Hobby During Your Free Time

Do something that you like to do. It will help pass the time, it will help build your skills, make you look more marketable on your resume, and it will be fun.

5. Find Out Why You Are Burned Out

Finding out why you are burned out will help you put the focus on where you need to in order to solve the problem more efficiently and effectively. Also, you can figure out why you are burned out by talking to a friend or a family member or by writing in a journal about how your days at work or how your days, in general, are going. By expressing how you feel, you’ll see the pattern within what you say and/or write and see where the problem lies.

6. Be More Satisfied with Your Work, Focus Less on Perfectionism

Working hard is a good trait to have. It’s good to work hard on something because the more you work on something, the better that something it looks. So, if you know that you are working hard at something and if the people around you are satisfied with your work, then go easy on yourself. And even if the people around you aren’t satisfied with your work, it really doesn’t matter just as long as you are satisfied with your work.

7. Track Your Burnout Healing Progress

Tracking your progress will help you see that you are getting better and that will give you peace of mind. It will also help you see how much burnout-related stuff that you need to work through. It will help see what kind of problems there are that need fixing.

8. Set Your Priorities in Order

Set your priorities in the order in which of them need to be completed the most. Especially, list them in the order of the ones that help you the most to the ones that help you the least. That way, you’ll be able to get the most important things out of the way so that you can do the rest of the stuff, like hobbies, meditation, and free time. That pretty much involves working hard to complete all of your priorities so that you can do the stuff that you want to do.

9. Develop Your Skills to Make Yourself More Marketable to Employers

Do something productive with your time and build your skills so that you can look good in front of your employers. That way, you’ll be able to handle the responsibilities of your job and handle it more. And you’ll be able to get more respect from your employers if you handle your responsibilities better. It’ll be a lot better than thinking negatively about yourself and your abilities; Instead, you will be busy focusing on bettering your abilities and your self-confidence. You will think better of yourself if you spend your time more productively on bettering yourself and your skills.

10. Take Care of Your Body

Take a few days off if you feel like you are very mentally fatigued. If you are sick, stay at home and recover from your sickness. If you are injured, see a doctor and/or recover at home. Take things easy and eat a good diet that helps your body as well. You need to take care of your body to prevent burn out because your body can only take so much and, if you don’t take breaks, your body will accumulate a lot of stress. Also, too much stress can damage the body and can cause you a plethora of health problems later on in life for you. So, it’s good for you to take care of your body by taking breaks, go for a walk, exercise, meditate, spend some time alone, spend some time with friends and/or family, or you can just go on vacation for several days. Just do something that you want to do so that you will destress from all that pent-up stress.

Overall, burnout comes from a place of stress and/or dissatisfaction from life. It can be overwhelming to deal with, but it can be dealt with by minimizing your stress and by getting to the root of your problems.

10 Ways to Prevent Burnout