What Are You Going To Do? - #MotivateUs Quote of the Day + Something Extra
Published: Wed, 11/18/15
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Quote: You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, 'I don't care how hard this is, I don't care how disappointed I am, I'm not going to let this get the best of me. I'm moving on with my life.'--- Joel Osteen Now onto the "little extra" for today: Depression? Burn-out? Three Ways To Stop Depression And Burn-Out Our culture seems to be experiencing an epidemic of problems such as depression and burnout, with estimates of more than 10% each year being common. In my practice as a medical doctor and now as I moved into psychological therapy exclusively, people have come to me with different levels of these problems, from depression bad enough to be actively planning suicide, to more vague thoughts of whether it is worth going on with it all. Sometimes it's been more about losing confidence with what they are doing, or even having full-on panic attacks. As I've explored their situations I've found there are 3 key
factors to stopping their state of depression and feeling burn-out. 1) Set goals with a pre-determined end point -- Life and work can't just be an endless marathon. You need to have sprints as well as rest periods, and have some finish lines along the way. Otherwise the only rest
you get is when you collapse from exhaustion, and it's better if you can do that on the other side of a finish line. Whether you label it a milestone, or a step in the journey, or an exit strategy, you do need to acknowledge the ebb and flow of your motivation and interest and worth with it rather than
against it. Even a seemingly powerful motivator such as having more money, can become burnt out when more and more is still never enough because you haven't defined what you want that money to bring
you. Love and blessings, Marlene Oh yes, a link to the image: |