The Burnout Queens Wisdom: live love
Time to take a break when…
It was definitely time to take a break…
The Burnout Queens took a week out to drop off the work scene. It was definitely time! If it’s one thing I have learnt over my long career it’s time to take a break when…
- I want to stay in bed and pull the duvet up over my head
- I want to do anything but sit at my desk
- I want to do anything but speak with my dear clients
- I want to retire and move to a quiet beach (oh wait I’ve done some of that!)
- I find myself crankie at the dogs for everything (even when they are being cute)
- I find myself dreading ‘calling home’ to speak to my 99 year old mother
- I can’t catch a train to London because of weather or no petsitter (no cultural play makes me very grumpy)
- I can’t stand being around people and noise (my Dietrich moments)
- I can’t focus for more than a few seconds (unless it’s a puzzle and I’m obsessed)
I’m sure you get the idea. And I’m doubly sure you recognise many of these for yourself! Better to take a break and gather my steam again so that I can be creative, present and enjoyable to be around. Of course, breaks are always announced to clients after looking at the calendar, asking them to change their call dates (seldom do this, but…) and clearing the decks of responsibility.
I’m pleased to say that I didn’t decide to pack a million and one things into 7 days, but I did some very pleasant sightseeing and tea sipping at my leisure. You could say a curative rest. It was a good plan and the feedback from my community says Dr T and I are great role models for taking care of ourselves and not burning out. Well that’s the idea anyway!
Next time you find yourself feeling the same way, take yourself away and rest up. Take it from these 2 docs, “You could just prevent yourself from burning out!”
Love, Dr B (The Burnout Queens) xx
Love lives all around you. Be open to it.
The Burnout Queens Wisdom: Love lives all around you. Be open to it.
Hello from Brighton & London: 6 February 2016
Darlings how are you! January 1st came quietly seaside (always an HSP plan). Lots of end-of-holiday relaxing, browsing through magazines, and of course, the pups being cute and crazy. All this while the weather outside was truly frightful! (windy, rainy and chilly…we left Canada to escape this but it seems they bundled it up and sent it over on the jetstream…lovely)
Speaking of weather, we tried to get up to London to soak in some culture, but trains were cancelled so change of plan…we enjoyed theatre seaside. We’re officially ‘sworn-to-secrecy about whodunit in London’s longest running mystery The Mousetrap (yes they insist at curtain call you cannot reveal anything, so lips are sealed), Fabulous entertainment and no it wasn’t the butler! (Dr T had figured it out early, but I didn’t see it coming at all!)
Spring is determined to arrive, so beauty isn’t far behind in the gardens and the flower shops. When I see the first buds and flowers it makes me want to get out of hibernation and leisurely browse the streets and shops in our quirky town.
February’s Leap Year is coming up, so we will have to discover something new and exciting this year. Will share it next time. And what about you?
Giving Is Simply Fun
This last Christmas, The Burnout Queens decided to add a little sparkle to girls’ and womens’ lives. We decided it’s time to put our Christmas Chaos Campaign into action.
Ladies who read us…and get our philosophy…were asked to purchase our It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Chaos video and learn how to create delight in the holidays, instead of dread! As an incentive we decided to send all the proceeds…yes 100% +…to WaterAid to help young girls get an education rather than walking all day to gather water for their village. The purchase + our donation match + UK governments match.
Well…proud to say that we got some lovely hearted women on board and we raised £50.00 for WaterAid. So like all good women after Christmas….we shopped! Here’s what we got with your help, our help and the government’s help: a bag or 2 of cement, enough to build the foundations of a village loo!!
And because a woman can’t just stop at bags, we thought a little red toolkit was the perfect accessory. This red toolkit will fix the water supplies in not 1, but 10 villages.
Now that’s what I call a shopping spree. It was fantastically fun to know that your £2 expanded to give young girls the chance to open a book or two and help her village for the future in a different and important way.
And we hope that those of you who helped in this global way, found some fun and merriment in the suggestions we gave on our latest edition of It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Chaos.
Till next year’s campaign kicks off with another offering. Thanks from us to all our Burnout Queen friends. Your generosity is uplifting.
With love, The Burnout Queens xx