What happens when you just aren’t feeling it anymore? How do we keep going when we’re reaching the burnout stage? I had the pleasure of talking with Jane Atkinson of The Wealthy Speaker Show, where we chatted all about how and why burnout happens and how we can heal and come back to create further success.

You know what the scariest part about burnout is? It’s that you don’t notice you’re burned out until you’ve already reached that point! Talking from some serious first-hand experience, it takes time to replenish emotionally and mentally when you’re burned out. Of course in a perfect world, we’d know how to prevent it before it happens (which I’ll explore in a future blog - stay tuned!).

When the going gets rough, it’s easy to fall into our emotions and put self-development on the back-burner. But it’s important to acknowledge the way we feel and explore it a bit so that we can better understand the both the cause and the path forward. I’ve always felt like the easiest way to start to understand and break down my own feelings is to read.

When distractions are high and stress is mounting, keeping your team engaged + focused on their goals may feel like its own battle. In this webinar, Certified Professional Behavior Analyst, Rachel Sheerin, gives you insight into fast + effective motivational tools for leaders and peers alike to boost morale in stressful times.

We’ve all been in this situation. You show up to work and your boss hands you 3 painstakingly time-consuming projects that all have to be somehow finished by tomorrow. There is nothing quite as stressful as facing a tight deadline at work. It can feel impossible to know how to deal with the stress of tight deadlines in a healthy way, and no unfortunately, snacking nervously does not count as dealing.

With stress running high, a huge amount of events in a short time period, and exhaustion creeping in, it’s easy to focus on the client and flash a smile in front of them. Behind the scenes though, we let our guard down and treat our teams and vendor friends with less patience, trust, and care, turning into stressed out versions of ourselves we don’t enjoy being.

As I write this, I'm sitting on my new couch, with the dog curled up by my Christmas tree, Yule Log on TV, Christmas music through the stereo. I'm between writing content for my website and finalizing a speaking gig in Boston in the summer. Oh, how times have changed.