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I Should Be Burnt Out By Now…So How Come I'm Not?
by Peg Neuhauser, Ray Bender and Kirk Stomberg
How to survive and thrive in today's uncertain world.
After seeing many people suffer from burnout, consultants Peg Neuhauser, Ray Bender and Kirk Stomberg started wondering about people who seem to avoid this fate and what they do differently.
The result is a book in which the authors drew on interviews with several individuals who have proven to be resilient in high-stress situations.
The individuals seemed to share certain key traits: Instead of waiting to be rescued from a situation, they rescued themselves; they didn't sweat the small stuff; they kept bouncing back no matter what life threw at them; and they left the past in the past.
Many of them use mantras or positive affirmations to keep a good attitude toward themselves and their work, and it also helps to stay focused on the present rather than the future. As Will Rogers once sarcastically said, “I know worrying must be effective because almost nothing I worried about ever happened.”
One of the interviewees, Ed Gallagher, a former Marine, later worked for a company that fell on hard times, but he used discipline and a positive outlook to get through it, reassuring himself, “Yes, this is terrible and I hate it. It's stressful and I could lose my job, but at the end of the day, I've still got two hands, two arms, and two legs, and I'm alive.”
Other advice includes finding meaning and challenge in your work, maintaining ethical standards, listening to your inner voice, embracing change, delegating, building good relationships while avoiding toxic ones; and prioritizing not just work, but life.
Despite dealing with a heavy topic, the book is a surprisingly light read; sort of like a tune-up for the psyche.
Title: I Should Be Burnt Out By Now…So How Come I'm Not?
Author: Peg Neuhauser, Ray Bender and Kirk Stomberg
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0470833858
Review written by: Marc Duane Anderson
Reviewer's Rating:8.5
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