"When I arrived at Vista Verde Ranch in late October for a mini-vacation, I was running on fumes. My excitement to take part in a three-day horsemanship clinic and experience all this luxury dude ranch offered provided enough adrenaline to carry me. The truth was, my light had been dimming since the third quarter began at my consulting job. "If I can just make it until the end of the year," I kept telling myself, "at least I'll have more vacation time.""
"I had researched and published on burnout in USA Swim coaches during my MS in sport psychology at CU Boulder. We had posited that burnout was more than just stress by exploring the phenomenon of entrapment experienced by coaches who remain committed despite rising personal costs, diminishing joy, and the feeling of being stuck in a job. At the time, I thought burnout was something that happened to other people - not me. But I fit the profile of an entrapped professional exactly."
"I recently dreamed I was trying to land a jet without doors or windows on a tight runway surrounded by water. I skidded to a stop just before sliding into the sea. My subconscious was trying to get my attention. My body heard the message too. Blood pressure, which had been well managed, began to climb. At work, I was irritable, and my emotional buffer wore thin."
When I arrived at Vista Verde Ranch in late October for a mini-vacation, I was running on fumes and relied on adrenaline to carry me through a three-day horsemanship clinic. Work had been draining me since the third quarter, and I kept telling myself, "If I can just make it until the end of the year." I had learned to pretend everything was fine and neglected that my job no longer fit my life. A final wake-up call on the last day revealed burnout. Prior research during an MS in sport psychology framed burnout as entrapment, and physical and emotional symptoms emerged, prompting a shift to rest and rebuilding differently.
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