Burnout lessons from swimming
Hi Everyone 👋
I want to share a lesson I learned about burnout, from my sister's swimming!
We've all felt it, stretched too thin, juggling too many things, pushing too hard - Burnout is tricky, it creeps up on you, and by the time your realize it, you're already drained.
Burnout can happen for a bunch of different reasons, at work you might be wearing too many different hats and trying to fill too many gaps, entering a stressful period or working, taking on too much work for an unrealistic deadline. It can even be as simple as you've just been working too long without a break.
At home you might have personal circumstances that require more of you than usual, stressful life events, physical changes or stressors - we've all experienced what a few consecutive days of bad sleep can do to us 😂
My sister told me a story of how her swim training made the proverbial penny drop on how burnout can look without you even noticing it.
The lesson...