Filling up your schedule because you thrive on being busy or you just don’t have another choice between the demands and challenges of home and work can wear you out and wear you down. 3 words come to mind: exhaustion, irritation and burnout.
Making time for yourself, having solitude, is beneficial to both your physical and mental wellbeing. Spending time alone can improve stress and tension, enhance creativity, and aid problem solving. Even personal relationships can benefit from you taking some time alone.
Obviously then, taking guilt-free downtime is definitely worthwhile. Miss Dietrich knew the benefits of ‘being alone’. Now let’s find ways you can benefit from your own alone time:
- Make solitude a regular part of your day or week. Schedule periods of time for yourself that you can count on.
- Maybe you already have times in your day when you are alone, taking a shower, walking the dog. Treat these as opportunities to relax rather than seeing them as “chores”.
- Taking the bus or tube instead of driving to work can offer a brief respite from stress and time to catch up on reading or listening to music.
- If you work outside the home, make lunchtime your digital downtime by leaving the mobile phone at the office
These easy solutions just take a decision to create less pressure and more ease in your life. Go for it. All you have to lose is the exhaustion, irritation and burnout!
Grab life by the crown!
The Burnout Queens xx
