What to Do When Experiencing Burnout? 10 Coaching Practices to Try

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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. 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. Take a planned monitoring break to prevent tracking fatigue
   Sustained self-monitoring burns out — a deliberate short break with clear resumption rules prevents abandonment.
   Self-Monitoring, Made Practical
4. 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
5. Distinguish functional overreaching from non-functional overtraining
   Functional overreaching (planned short-term overload) leads to supercompensation; non-functional overtraining is a breakdown that can take months to reverse.
   Supercompensation
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. 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
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. 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
10. Schedule recovery proactively, not reactively
    Build recovery into the calendar before load accumulates, not as an emergency response after breakdown.
    Allostatic Load, Made Practical

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I act like every single thing has to be done by me, and I’m drowning→
• Carrying everyone else’s anxiety and conflict has hollowed me out→
• I’m sick of logging everything→
• The thing I once loved most has become pure obligation→
• My performance keeps sliding, my mood and sleep are tanking, and my gut reaction is to train harder to push through it→

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