Coaching practices for How to Handle Burnout at Work

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• I push flat-out all day with no real breaks, treating rest like something I have to earn after the work is done
• Carrying everyone else’s anxiety and conflict has hollowed me out
• I act like every single thing has to be done by me, and I’m drowning
• 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
• 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.

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Build sanctuaries for renewal outside the system
   Maintain relationships and practices outside the organizational system that restore perspective and capacity.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Use a shutdown ritual
   End the workday with a deliberate routine that closes open loops and declares work done.
   Deep Work, Made Practical
7. 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
8. Name frustrations without shame
   Frustrations are not weaknesses — they’re a mismatch signal that the team can act on.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
9. Recover intrinsic interest after it has been crowded out
   Intrinsic interest that has been undermined can often be partially recovered by removing the reward and reconnecting to original reasons.
   The Overjustification Effect: When Rewards Kill Motivation
10. 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

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