If you are exhausted by Wednesday, then you could be struggling with midweek burnout. The good news is you can find some effective suggestions to help you cope below.
Give yourself permission to take a rest.
It can be difficult to take a rest when you are feeling stressed and busy. We often fear stopping because we worry that we’ll lose time or not have the energy or motivation to start again.
The funny thing is that breaks can stop us from getting to this point in the first place. They can also help us be more effective and productive when we are doing a task.
This is particularly the case when we permit ourselves to do something in a break that fills our own cup. Perhaps that is doing a short meditation, grabbing a cup of our favorite coffee, or reading six pages of our current novel. All of which gives us a real chance to rest before we come back to the reality of what needs to be done.
Allow yourself to order in a pizza.
Do you have a million things to do that you can’t even get to until you have prepared, cooked, and then cleared up from dinner? Allow yourself to make things easier once in a while by ordering in a pizza and saving lots of time and energy.
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Take one thing off your plate.
Likely, one of the things that are contributing to your midweek burnout is that ever-growing to-day list you keep in your planner or on your phone. Yes, I know that you need it to stay organised but when it gets too long it can really start to take a mental toll on us, preventing us from resting even when we have the opportunity because it’s always there nibbling away in the back of our minds.
One way to minimize the pull that our to-do lists have on us is to get more realistic about what we can do in a given space of time. After all, there are only 24 hours in a day, and once you take out 8 for sleep and 8 for work, that only leaves 8 left and these get filled up pretty quickly with cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the kids.
Also, everyone needs some rest time to decompress each day, so how much time do you have to get those extra jobs done? Probably around an hour, so any task taking longer than that needs to be broken down into smaller ones.
Also, you are not the only person in your home who can do things, so you can get a quick win by handing off a task to someone else to get done. Remember doing everything will only lead to burnout!
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