It may sound too good to be true, but slowing down could help you achieve more – and feel less stressed. Here are four ways you can take the stress out of your working life and get tasks completed with increased efficiency. 5 How to slow down, achieve more - and beat the dreaded burnout Credit: Rubberball.
com Do you often feel like you haven’t ticked enough off your to-do list? You’re not the only one, as a new study reveals that almost six in 10 desk workers are dissatisfied with their level of productivity.* The irony is, many of these people would have been working to the max, skipping breaks or taking on tasks outside of their job role. Lots of us are working flat out, but not seeing results.
It’s one of the key signs of burnout , defined by the World Health Organisation as an “occupational phenomenon”, in which a person is in a state of physical and emotional exhaustion, but without the “wins” to show for it. Mental Health UK says we are becoming a “burnt-out nation” with nine in 10 adults having experienced high or extreme stress in the past year, causing one in five to take time off. After working with more than 600 successful professionals, life coach Tomas Svitorka says he’d struggle to think of one who didn’t have burnout or had come dangerously close to it.
“For a while in the UK, there has been a trend where being consistently busy is equated with being important and successful,” he says. “This is amplified further by social media, wh.
