Coaching practices for How to Know If Burnout is Telling You to Change Careers

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• 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.
• Something has to give and I know it, but I keep refusing to be the one who decides what
• I keep telling myself it’s too late to change direction, like that’s just a flat fact about my life
• I act like every single thing has to be done by me, and I’m drowning
• Every time I push to work more, something quietly drags me back to exactly where I started

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Choose which burner to turn down intentionally
   Decide which domain to underfund deliberately rather than letting exhaustion decide for you.
   Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs
3. Reframe a dysfunctional belief
   Catch the stuck belief ("it’s too late to change careers") and rewrite it as a workable design problem.
   Designing Your Life, Made Practical
4. 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
5. Identify the balancing loops that resist your change efforts
   Most systems resist change through balancing loops — find what is pushing back before you push harder.
   Systems Thinking for Personal Productivity
6. 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
7. Build sanctuaries for renewal outside the system
   Maintain relationships and practices outside the organizational system that restore perspective and capacity.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
8. Reframe difficulty as the domain getting interesting
   Obstacles in a learning domain signal depth, not mismatch.
   Passion vs Interest: How to Actually Find Work You Love
9. Reduce the number of options to increase follow-through
   More choices often means worse decisions and less action — limit options deliberately.
   Choice Architecture, Made Practical
10. Plan in seasons, not permanent allocations
    Think of burner settings as seasonal, not fixed — recalibrate at defined intervals.
    Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs

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