Coaching practices for How to Deal with Burnout While at Work

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• I act like every single thing has to be done by me, and I’m drowning
• I push flat-out all day with no real breaks, treating rest like something I have to earn after the work is done
• I tell myself my family comes first, but when I look at where my week actually went it was almost all work, and I can’t square the story I tell with where the hours really landed.
• Carrying everyone else’s anxiety and conflict has hollowed me out
• I know I should stop and recover, but in the moment deciding to actually do it feels like one more thing, so I just keep grinding and the break never happens

Practices that may help

1. Outsource or delegate to keep a burner lit without your direct fuel
   Find ways to maintain a domain’s floor through systems, others, or automation rather than your direct effort.
   Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs
2. Oscillate between effort and recovery
   Pulse hard work with real recovery instead of grinding in a flat line.
   The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical
3. Name which burners are actually on
   Honestly assess how much fuel each of the four domains is receiving right now.
   Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs
4. Build sanctuaries for renewal outside the system
   Maintain relationships and practices outside the organizational system that restore perspective and capacity.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
5. Build energy rituals that automate oscillation
   Small, precise routines at transition points remove the decision cost of shifting between engagement and recovery.
   The Energy Audit
6. Use a 15-minute end-of-day planning buffer to close the day’s loops
   Before leaving work, take 15 minutes to list tomorrow’s priorities and explicitly close today’s open loops.
   The Zeigarnik Effect: How Unfinished Tasks Occupy Your Mind
7. Use a shutdown ritual
   End the workday with a deliberate routine that closes open loops and declares work done.
   Deep Work, Made Practical
8. Match coping mode to what is actually controllable
   Use problem-focused coping when you can change the situation; emotion-focused coping when you cannot.
   Stress Inoculation Training
9. Build rhythmic oscillation between stress and recovery
   High performance is not sustained effort — it is deliberate alternation between full engagement and full recovery.
   The Energy Audit
10. Use guilt-free play to recover rather than double down
    When avoidance happens, recover with genuine rest — not punitive extra work.
    The Now Habit, Made Practical

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