10 ways to take your life back when you are burnt out

There is an old saying that time heals all wounds and I have to disagree. Time will help you handle it differently, time will allow you to be able to talk about it calmer but it doesn’t heal the open wound. You will need to take control of life and look at the whole picture with different eyes with the experience as a lesson.

You know those days where getting up in the morning is like a wrestling match and you hit the snooze button as if you are getting a prize for the one who hits it the fastest? You wake up a tired as when you went to bed and the more coffee you drink doesn’t seem to help. So if you’re anywhere between lightly toasted and totally charred, it’s time to chill.

People confuse burnout with depression and they are easy to confuse. Medication doesn’t solve all problems and burn out requires some work on your part.

This is what I did, I was so burnt out in my nursing job getting to work was exhausting. I could walk into my office and lay on the desk or hide in a corner.

10 ways to take your life back when you are burnt out

1. Fitness
I have always enjoyed fitness and I knew I was burnt out when I no longer wanted to take walks – I didn’t have the energy to do more than sleep on the couch. Exercise is more about taking your power back than it is what your body looks like. Moving your body releases happy hormones in your body that gives you energy.

2. Take a short trip.
It doesn’t have to cost a lot of money. Changing your normal routine, changing your surroundings allows your mind to open up for change.

3. Allow new people into your life
We will naturally act like the people we spend the most time around. If you have negative people around you change to a more positive group of people. It does wonderful things for you mentally.

4. Stop doing what is not working for you
If you are to waiting to walk away from that shitty job, toxic relationship or commitment that is making you miserable – stop waiting. Make the change. You will not realize how toxic they are until you clear them from your space.

5. Give yourself permission to let go and move forward.
It is ok to change, it is ok to leave a past behind you that does not serve you well any more. Some people will spend their whole life telling the same story over and over. If it makes you hurt or feel bad – let it go.

6. Unplug
I have found as much as I love what I do in my business I need to unplug and back off from time to time. People will be ok and their issues will either fix themselves or be waiting when you get back. Turn things off and relax – really relax. Allow your mind to be stress. People will exhausted you with their issues and they are not even yours to deal with.

7. Never stop learning.
The old saying that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks is bull shit. Your mind loves to learn, it is not painful, learning is fun and can open doors you did not know were even available.

8. Allow yourself to be happy
Yes I said allow. There are people in your life that will call you names or say hurtful things to you when you begin to change. Expect it and keep on moving forward. It is ok to smile, to laugh and be happy. If the people who are saying things to you to hold you back, you have to understand that your change makes them uncomfortable. Do it anyway. You are not them. You have your own mission to live out…. be happy.

9. Journal
Either make a photo journal or a written journal to show yourself how far you have come in one year. It is blow your mind. If you start today or not – a year from today will still come. Make it a changed one.

10. Forgive yourself
Don’t allow fear, anger and regret to hold you back and keep your trapped in a damaging past. Allow yourself to not turn around and give the past any more of your time and move into a new future.

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