Managing Burnout

Reduce Stress and Pressure in Your Life

By: Amna Mahasi

Narrated by: Rosamund Hine

Are you feeling burnt out by the pace of your work and life? Do you want to reignite your passion, creativity, and motivation?

It’s time to take control of your emotional and physical health with this book of practical strategies for managing burnout.

Managing burnout can be accomplished by taking some important steps, such as understanding the context for your stressors, identifying what you want in life and how to get there, taking ownership for your happiness outcomes, and making decisions about how much is too much to handle before breaking down.

We are in a culture that encourages people to be happy because everything will work out in the end. You should be happy all of the time because everything is the way it should be. But for many of us this is not our reality, and that can cause us great stress and pressure as we try to cope with these challenges.

"All work and no play make Jack a dull boy. But a recent study on burnout in people revealed that it's rarely just one thing that leads to this state of exhaustion or disappointment with life. In fact, the causes are often complex."

Often when we suffer from burnout — emotionally caused exhaustion or disappointment with our current situation — it means we are not finding enough meaning in our lives. We are often going through life without enough internal energy to make it worthwhile. We have not been able to find what we really want, or we have not made progress towards it in the time we have been alive. This naturally leads to feelings of disappointment, anger or frustration.

We are in a culture that encourages people to be happy because everything will work out in the end.

This book aims to present mindfulness, gratitude, and compassion techniques for managing these feelings of frustration and exhaustion. By taking the time to think about what we want in our lives and what we deserve, and through changing our behavior to adapt to our changing situation, we can make ourselves happier.

©2022 Amna Mahasi (P)2022 Amna Mahasi

Burnout a concern

It is funny how we always think that we are smart and can always manage our stressors. Yet we pay no attention to them until when it is too late. Amna has done a good job in researching and putting together in an easy to read way the science behind the stressors and the different tips to reduce and eliminate stress. First one needs to identify the stressors and figure out the different ways of preventing them as highlighted in the book. Grab a copy if you are experiencing burnout from stressors.

A great book!

This book guides the listener step by step towards a positive life with a psychological and at the same time sociological approach. The book has a coherent structure and a good narration. I enjoyed listening to it.

Time to take care of me!

We all have a lot going on in our lives and sadly we have made it into our new norm to be stressed and spend so much of our time trying to recover. I myself am infamous for adding more and more to my plate to somehow prove what I can handle but eventually it all comes to a boil and then I breakdown. This book focuses on preventing the stressors by adding boundaries into our lives and then reducing the stress that we cannot prevent. The author does an amazing job of explaining why self care is so important the damage stress can do to our health. The author provides actual steps to take to take care of ourselves better. Some books just make a blanket statement to start taking better care of ourselves but the author took the time to help with a plan that can be put in place. I have many notes from the book that I will be working on my game plan to get my stressors under control.

I so appreciate this book!

This book is comprehensive without being overwhelming. And by comprehensive, I don't just mean that the topic is explained well. I mean that there are many different solutions offered for many different people at different stages of their lives. There are thought exercises, body movements, and life planning ideas all included, in addition to more types of solutions. This book has a lot to offer.

Excellent advice for the working woman

Amna does a great job explaining how the different stressors our lives can lead to burnout and provides relevant and accessible suggestions on how to combat that stress and even create a life where stress is managed in order to avoid burnout.