Items tagged with "avoid crisis":
Surviving Uncertainty
Seventeen years ago Susan Jeffers wrote a book called Embracing Uncertainty. In the book she suggested that in times of distress it is helpful to wonder about things generally instead of hoping for something specific. When we hope for a definite result, we become attached to that particular outcome...
The Best Book To Help You Prevent And Manage Burnout
We recently had a chance to sit down with Master Coach, Judy Klipin to talk about her latest book, Recover From Burnout. And, after chatting with Judy, we couldn’t wait to read the book from cover to cover because the truth is, burnout has the potential to affect every single one of us at some stage...
An inability to say no – and other bad habits of burnout
Judy Klipin experienced burnout. After becoming a life coach and seeing the need for it among her clients, she wrote a book, Recover from Burnout; Life Lessons to Regain Your Passion and Purpose. The SA Jewish Report caught up with her on her personal journey. What inspired you to write this book? My...
Women and Burnout
Every year, there is much attention and fanfare about International Women’s day. The week that 8 March falls in is filled with news and views about women and the importance of recognising our importance. While some people are not convinced that there should be a day dedicated to thinking about women...
When a Holiday is Not Enough
You’ve just had a 3-week holiday. You should be feeling rested and rejuvenated and ready to take on the world. Instead, after just a few days (or possibly even hours) back in the saddle of your life, you are feeling weak, weary and more than a little weepy. It is a truth not universally acknowledged...
How to Listen to Your Body
Have you ever got to the end of the day and realised that you forgot to have lunch? Or drink any water? Or that you’ve been gritting your teeth so hard that your neck and shoulders have gone into a spasm – and probably have been in it for hours? Sometimes (OK, often), work becomes so busy and...
All We Really Need is Breathing Space
One of the many reasons we choose to work is because of the stimulation that is promised by going out and doing a job every day. We are stimulated by the work that we do, the people who we do it with, and by the environment that we work in. If we are lucky, that stimulation is predominantly positive....
From AlwaysOn to OftenOff
Happy Equinox! The 21st of March, in addition to being Human Rights Day in South Africa, is the Autumn/Spring Equinox. All over the planet, day and night both last 12 hours - give or take a few minutes. Dark and light are equally balanced. The sun and the stars get equal airtime. Nocturnal creatures...
How to Stay Sane in a World Gone Mad: 6 Ideas to Help You Stay Hopeful
I have started avoiding the news – in any and all forms. Things are so bad out there that it all feels too overwhelming. And, still, the horrors manage to filter through my defenses. Everywhere there is justified outrage about our incompetent-at-best and pathological-at-worst leaders, horror at...
Rebuild Your Resilience to Recover from Burnout
Have you ever found yourself saying, “if one more person asks me to do something I might crack”? Felt as though you are stretched so far that you fear you might snap? Had a to-do list that took on a life of its own, with each item you tick off being replaced by three or four more? All of...
Burnout Makes Us Feel Hapless, Hopeless and Helpless
We all have moments in our lives when we feel a little at sea and as though we have lost our way. When we feel as though we are bobbing around; isolated, lonely and afraid. When we question many of our life choices: work, love, friendships… Like a boat in a storm. We don’t know where we are going...
Sunday Night Blues
You’ve had a wonderful holiday. Resting, relaxing and being in the moment. No worrying about the report that is due, the presentation you need to make at the next meeting, the conversation with your hated boss/client/colleague that you have to have. No work worries at all. But, now, the party is...
Think Less, Feel More
Have you ever had a time when you just knew something you were doing or thinking about doing was a bad idea, but you went ahead and did it anyway? Most of us have. Not just one time, but many times. We talk ourselves into things that we don’t want to do. We tell ourselves that we should do it...
Express Yourself
Burnout is a horrible, debilitating condition that we need to understand better so we can manage and prevent it better. Not just the physical manifestations of it, but the thoughts, beliefs and behaviours that give rise to it. I am often asked why people get burnout. There are countless factors that...
Burnout: A Dying of Your Light
You know that feeling when you wake up and it feels like you haven’t had enough sleep – no matter how many hours ago you went to bed? Or that experience of being less articulate than usual: you know that you know the words you are looking for but you just can’t seem to find them? Or that...
3 Steps to Getting Unstuck
Feeling stuck is horrible. That sensation of spinning in infinity on a hamster wheel (often of our own making but sometimes not), or being imprisoned in a web that we have weaved around ourselves is nasty beyond description. Feeling stuck sucks. It keeps us in situations that we don’t want to...
What Colour is Your Canary?
How do you know when you are doing something that is putting your happiness and fulfillment in danger? In the olden days, before sophisticated gadgetry was invented to do the same job, miners used to take a few canaries underground with them. If any of the birds started to have difficulty breathing...