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Quotes for burnout
Ten at night and the inbox is open again. The weekend happened and you didn't feel it. You came back from a week off and were tired by the Tuesday, and small jobs that used to take five minutes now need a run-up.
People who've been here are often blunt about it. Rest helped, and it wore off when the workload stayed the same. What they name is saying no to one specific thing, lying down without apologising, and seeing a doctor when it wouldn't lift.
You'll find short, slow sentences here for the screen you pick up at 10pm. None of them ask you to rest so you can get more done, and none tell you to quit.
The moments
- The inbox open at 10pm
- A weekend that didn't feel like rest
- Guilt over taking a break
- Saying yes when you meant no, again
- A holiday that didn't help
- Being told to run a bath when the problem is the workload
What people say helps
- Reducing the workload as well as resting
- Saying no to one specific thing
- Downtime without an apology attached
- Seeing a doctor when it wouldn't lift
“Practise self-care” and “you need a holiday” put the fix on you and leave the workload exactly where it was.
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Quill Originals
Ask for help before you're at the end of it.
You can't do tomorrow's work tonight, and you've been trying.
Being good at this is partly why they keep asking.
Put nothing in the diary and defend it.
Cats have this figured out.
Here's your permission slip. Lie down.
Nap. No note required.
You've answered enough questions today.
Saturday is allowed to be a bit useless.
Sitting still might feel awful at first. That's common.
Close some tabs. In your browser and otherwise.
The building stays up when you're off.
There's too much. That's a fact, and you can say it.
One no this week. Pick it now.
The dishes will wait without resentment.
It was finished an hour ago.
Put on the film you've seen twelve times.
Someone may be disappointed. They'll manage.
Two days off didn't fix it. That tells you something.
Nobody ever asked for the extra slide.
Spend a Sunday in your pyjamas. It's legal.
Trees don't do quarterly reviews.
Popular sayings
Good enough is good enough.
You can't pour from an empty cup.
It's okay to ask for help.
From the books
If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
Read the passage around this line
1. It is better to leave a vessel unfilled, than to attempt to carry it when it is full. If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
Learn to stop when you get through.
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Close, compact statement must be had. Learn to stop when you get through. Do not keep stringing out conversation or argument after you have made your point. You only weaken your case and prejudice people against you for your lack of tact, good judgment, or sense of proportion. Do not neutralize all the good impression you have made by talking on and on long after you have made your point.
Let the world find its way to you.
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But God in shame hastens to hide its memory under the green grass. 187 Toes are the fingers that have forsaken their past. 188 Darkness travels towards light, but blindness towards death. 189 The pet dog suspects the universe for scheming to take its place. 190 Sit still my heart, do not raise your dust. Let the world find its way to you. 191 The bow whispers to the arrow before it speeds forth—"Your freedom is mine." 192 Woman, in your laughter you have the music of the fountain of life. 193 A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. 194 God loves man's lamp lights better than his own great stars.
What is it that we make all this bustle for, and so needlessly disquiet our minds?
Let there be only a proper husbanding of strength, and let each man proportion his efforts to his powers.
You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
Be not virtuous beyond your powers!
How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell: Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
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