Signs of Burnout

If you are interested in any kind of leadership for any amount of time you know what the term means burnout. So often we start at the beginning of the burnout syndrome and we miss until we understand it in pretty deep. So in the next few postings I would like to refer to the signs of burnout and the healing of burnout.

A really good example of burnout in the Bible can be found in I Kings 19 and the story of Elijah.

I will not go into the details of the story - you can read, dass Here are some signs of burnout:

1. We are devaluing our worth. We compare ourselves with others and what we expect our lives to be. Once you begin to compare to others to destroy you begin your worth and your achievements. As this happens you begin to lose sight of what you have and really the only thing you see is what you do not, or what you believe you have failed at. As this happens, you begin to slide into the next set of burnout.

2. We devalue our work. We must not forget that we only obedience. You will begin to set the overall outcome of the lives of working on your shoulders. You must not forget that you are only responsible for what you are doing.

3. We exaggerate our problems. We make them bigger than they really are. Have you ever seen something bigger than they really are? We all have done this. Each one of us. My mother use to say, you are a mountain of a mole hill. If we at this point, we've lost right vision, and we are not properly seen. If this happens, it's easy to fall in the next sentence.

4. We abdicate our dreams. If we stop dreaming, we die inside. We quit, or to stop caring or even just start with the routine of life. I think this is one of the worst places to be. They are miserable. No vision means that the people perish. Hope deferred makes the heart sick. This is a really bad to be.

Do you feel burnt out? What are you doing about it? What did you do?
In the next article I will be on the healing of burnout.

There is help. You can run it from the burnout and get back to the right path again.

Autor: Joe Butler

Joe Butler is speaker, coach, author and pastor. Check out my blog at http://www.joesbigadventureblog.com

Are you fighting Burnout or know someone who is? Check out my website on How to Overcome Burnout at http://www.howtoovercomeburnout.info You can learn to spot the sign of burnout and begin to work the cure of burnout.

Added: May 22, 2009
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