RE-IGNITE BURNOUT OR BOUNDARIES

How do you live well in a post-COVID, hybrid working era? There’s a choice you need to make, burnout or boundaries.

There’s no such thing as a work-life balance. Can we just put that to the side for now?

There is such a thing as work-life integration and how we manage and avoid burnout is by having boundaries around how and where we choose to spend our time, so that we replenish our energy and enable ourselves to focus when we need to, with our families, in our workplaces, with our friends.

For me, there are three things we need to consider if we’re going to be setting boundaries and protecting ourselves from burnout:

•   GOALS –  people who stay focused, and mindful and aligned, have clear goals, they know what they’re working towards in their personal lives, with their families, and at work.
•   Habits – your daily habits and routines that enable you to maintain, and manage and monitor your energy.
•   Perspective – Where are you at in your life? What stage are you at? Are you single? Are you married with kids? Are you going through a post-career transition phase? Where are you at? Because that’s going to have a huge degree of impact on your goals and your habits.

If we don’t learn how to effectively manage our boundaries, we’re going to burn out. And that’s up to us as individuals, not our employers. We need to learn the skills to be resilient, to be focused, and to remain energised.

In my 90-minute Re-Ignite Keynote, I provide business leaders and their teams opportunities to have conversations about how they’re going to make choices around burnout or boundaries.