The Burnout Pups this weekend have wrapped up their summer with gardening. Their tip? “When the gardening chores are done we….and you?”
with Love, The Burnout Pups xx
Be Calm
Stay focused on what you need!
When you feel stuck in a relationship, family, job or your life, burnout is not far behind. Stay focused on what you need! -Dr. Toby Silverton
Will my workday ever end?
This is one of the big woes for our clients–trying to get away from the office on time at the end of the workday
Leaving work is a tough call. With the best of intentions, it just usually doesn’t happen the way you planned it. You’ve got things to finish off, meetings to attend that you know will take you into your free time and make you late for something. Or, you will feel guilty leaving on-time when others are staying behind to work.
No winning this is there! There are consequences to this stressful time. Staying late and leaving beyond the usual end of day, means you have a longer commute ahead of you, you’ll get home later, perhaps skip dinner, perhaps miss those moments with the family that count to you most!
This is far too common in our busy workday worlds.
So what’s an exhausted, stressed woman to do? You may want to consider this (and you’ll get over the initial guilt surprisingly quickly when you see it works for you)
Plan to leave work at the end of the day. (we think this would be the moment between work and overtime!)
-Make ‘the end of the day’ a distinct hour that is normal for your business, otherwise you don’t know what you are aiming for. (you know, the time it states in the employee manual)
-With the hour in mind, stop working 30 minutes beforehand. Write it in your calendar, phone, anything that will ‘ring’ or ‘pop up’ on your computer to remind you when this time arrives.
-Start organising your desk and your to-do list for tomorrow, and then………..
GET OUT OF THERE…you might just give yourself enough time to enjoy your evening.
Now, repeat this each day for the next few weeks and you will quickly reap the rewards and benefits (and your business will too)
Always remember, Grab Life by the Crown! with love The Burnout Queens xx
Hello from London!
Wow, summer went by so fast. Autumn is definitely in the air in London. This summer was exceptionally hot and beautiful, but there are plenty of creative ways to cool off!
At the beautiful Victoria & Albert Museum you can enjoy the coolness of the courtyard with tea and strawberries & cream while you watch the adventurous amongst us ditch the clothes for some splashing around!
This is just the greatest place, everywhere you look there is beauty…even the cafeteria!
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September brings a rush of art fairs and exhibits like the retrospective on the life of writer Virginia Woolf at the National Portrait Gallery. We couldn’t miss this opportunity and it was fascinating…and rather sad.
One of the coolest things about London is that even when you just have a bunch of errands to do you can head to someplace like Piccadilly to accomplish all. Certainly takes the boring out of errand day! We spend hours (with apologies to our feet) meandering through side streets and shopping arcades. Then happily land in an oasis of calm like St. James Square right in the middle of the mad-mix.
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September always brings a sense of ‘newness’. Must be the many years of anticipating a new pencil box for school! Well we are busy here designing new classes and courses which will be available shortly online to all of you. (Watch for announcements.) Planning workshops we are being invited to give and in- between it all still dashing off to the seaside days out and of course…art fairs! Another invitation just arrived.
Enjoy your September!
An interest could be a beginning!
If you get all choked up watching a news piece on a crisis or a touching story of helping–take note, this could be an interest you could build on.
You could take that interest one step further. Why not email (contact) the organisation and ask how you could get involved. There may be several options that suit you and your sensitivities and gifts.
Your new interest could just be a new beginning.
xx The Burnout Queens