It's Playtime!

If you'll remember, last Friday I told you that Friday's blogs were going to be dedicated to working on ways to minimize your burnout and learn how to relax and have a good time! Well, I said it, I meant it, so here we go!

Before we can start working on decreasing your burnout (although the exercising we've been talking about doing for most of the week will do wonders for that) we need to talk about what burnout is. The society we live in practically begs us to stay busy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Time spent sitting around watching television is wasted time we could be using to clean our house. Time spent sitting on the back porch is time we could be spending learning another language, working our way through the classics on audiobook or helping rebuild houses in other countries.

And that's not to mention the 50 hours a week the average American puts in at the office. It's no wonder burnout is so common!

Burnout is what happens when you need a vacation so badly your mind starts to glaze over. You lose your edge. You don't enjoy your job, you begin to snap at the people around you, and you're so exhausted you can't even work up the energy to care about any of it. It's time to step back and take a break, which is exactly why Saturdays and Sundays were invented!

For more information on burnout visit http://helpguide.org/mental/burnout_signs_symptoms.htm.