Are you engaged in your work or is it just a job? If you dread your days in the office and feel like a robot going through the motions, then honestly ask yourself if this is how you want to spend your life.
Every job has built in difficulties. Difficulties, alone don’t cause job burnout. Lack of control drains us and leads to frustration. If people and situations don’t demand our best, we soon become bored. So, some stress is both expected and good.
Too often people assume others know or should know what is needed for a job or particular activity. This is not the case. What one person needs may not be the same as another. The person may not be thinking about what you need to complete your job, their mind may have raced off to the next thing they need to do. It could be they may not have a clue of what is needed. Perhaps the person that did that job before used their own tools or had different resources
In order to avoid job burnout, we must embrace challenges that keep us interested and performing at our peak. Labelling difficulties as challenges also helps us balance our personal and work related lives.
Don’t let the stress of your job control you. If you need to make changes to avoid
burnout then do so. You have a personal responsibility to yourself, your well-being and your happiness.
Passion, a positive attitude and a sense of adventure, excitement and fun all make your work more than just a job. There is no mystery in the fact that the rewards of work are greater when you’re engaged in what you do.
Fulfilment is the fruit of work that is more than a job.