[Featured Article] Schedule a 15-Minute Break Before You Burn Out

When you’re racing 90 miles an hour, the last thing you want to do is slow down.

That’s how it feels on those exhilarating days when you’re completely focused, tearing through your to-do list, racking up accomplishments.

You just want to keep going. You might also worry that if you take a break, you’ll lose momentum and find it impossible to regain your stride.

But the research tells us otherwise. Studies show we have a limited capacity for concentrating over extended time periods, and though we may not be practiced at recognizing the symptoms of fatigue, they unavoidably derail our work. No matter how engaged we are in an activity, our brains inevitably tire. And when they do, the symptoms are not necessarily obvious. We don’t always yawn or feel ourselves nodding off. Instead, we become more vulnerable to distractions.

[Featured Article] Burnout Takes Years to Develop and Years to Beat

Are you a workaholic? Ever feels like over work and insufficient time to rest? Getting short tempered? Lack of sleep? Cant concentrate? 

Sharing with you with this article about burnout and how it developed. Make sure you are aware with what is experiencing within you. Or you might want to check out how to prevent burn out!

[Featured Article] The ‘Busy’ Trap

If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: “Busy!” “So busy.” “Crazy busy.” It is, pretty obviously, a boast disguised as a complaint. And the stock response is a kind of congratulation: “That’s a good problem to have,” or “Better than the opposite.”

(Work is like hell?)

Do you know the symptoms of being burn out? Or the severity of burn out?