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Burnout No More: How Digital Mindfulness Can Help You
From deadlines to emails and requests, busy schedules and nonstop work can eventually catch up with you and result in the feeling of Burnout. However, by practicing digital mindfulness by making time for yourself here and there, you can reduce the effects of burnout from work with ease.
This Pacific Prime UK article will discuss how methods of digital mindfulness can help you feel less burnt out from work, the latter of which is another reason why employers should optimize the employee benefits package for employees in addition to investing in health insurance.
What is Burnout?
Before we discuss how digital mindfulness can help you feel less burnt out at work, let’s first discuss the elephant in the room, and that is the question many of you probably have, which is “what is burnout?”.
Burnout is a condition in which a person suffers from constantly accumulated emotional exhaustion from work-related stress, which may leave the person drained and unhappy with work. This affects the employee’s ability to work efficiently and maintain relationships with those around them.
You may recognize some common symptoms and warning signs of burnout such as stress and exhaustion or irritability and hostility towards peers, all of which could culminate in more serious symptoms such as lack of work productivity and punctuality or job dissatisfaction.
Key methods of prevention and treatment include bringing up the issue to your colleagues and/or supervisors to come up with a working solution to balance out your workload, as well as making some time for yourself to take breaks, which brings us to our next point.
Different Methods of Digital Mindfulness that Can Help you Manage your Burnout Symptoms
Digital mindfulness refers to practicing a safe, healthy digital environment for you and your peers at work. Some methods you could use in order to effectively manage your burnout symptoms include taking breaks and making some time for yourself by going out for a walk or setting boundaries.
Below we will be discussing different digital mindfulness methods that can help you effectively manage your burnout symptoms at work.
Take Breaks
Throughout the day, if you’re starting to feel overwhelmed by your workload, first and foremost, remember it’s okay. You can get up and take a break from the screen for around 1-10 minutes and walk around a little bit, stretch, take deep breaths, or do anything you need to help your brain relax before you resume work.
Reflect on Your Technology Usage
The first way to manage your burnout symptoms is to reflect on your technology usage. You can start by, whenever you feel discouraged or exhausted, identifying what was the technology usage that led you to feel this way, and how can you tailor the usage to ease such symptoms.
For instance, if you’re feeling a bit stressed from overwhelming deadlines or constant emails and messages, take a step back and focus on what technology usage stressed you out. You can then tailor the technological usage to ease your stress by tackling one deadline at a time and breaking down your priorities into manageable chunks.
By reflecting on your technology usage, you get to manage your burnout symptoms of stress or exhaustion without compromising on the technology usage required for keeping track of your work.
Setting Boundaries for Yourself
To set boundaries for yourself as an employee, be sure to clearly communicate with your employer regarding what hours you will be working and what hours you won’t, come up with an agreement, and stick to it.
If you aren’t comfortable bringing this up to your boss directly, you can bring this up with your peers by discussing the importance of your desired recharge time after work and you could slowly bring this up to your employer when you are ready.
By setting boundaries for yourself regarding work hours and personal time, you allow yourself to fulfill work hours as agreed upon and dedicate personal time for yourself in order to manage your symptoms of burnout, which brings us to our next point.
Making Time for Yourself
While it is understandably difficult to make time for yourself, especially if it’s common for you to be bombarded by constant deadlines, emails, and messages from your superiors at work, making time for yourself actually isn’t entirely outside of the realm of possibility.
You can do your best to complete as many of your tasks as you can during your agreed-upon work hours, remembering to break down those priorities into manageable chunks as we mentioned earlier, and come back to the ones that aren’t as urgent the next day.
Then, after work, when it’s finally time for you to recharge, you can relax and make time for yourself by doing what you enjoy. This can be going out for a walk or hanging out with friends. That way, you get to destress and fulfill some “me” time, ensuring you get to resume work the next day with a fresh mind.
Conclusion
While symptoms of burnout may seem overwhelming at first, it doesn’t mean they are entirely impossible to manage. In fact, simple digital mindfulness methods such as taking breaks may just be what you need to keep your work-related stress at bay.
You can also set boundaries for your work hours, that way, you get to fulfill your work hours as agreed upon and you get to take the rest of the day after work to fulfill some “me” time so that you can relax for the day and return to work the next day with a fresh mind once more.
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He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Arts, Media & Communication major (concentration: Creative Content) from Mahidol University International College (MUIC). During the compulsory major elective period in the summer of 2021 and voluntarily during the summer of 2022, he also interned as a video and photo editor at Mbrella Films.
He has experience working as an English Content Writer at a real estate buying/renting/selling platform in Thonglor. There, he crafted company blog posts on a multitude of topics. Topics include market trends, legal issues and disputes in property businesses, financial guides, expat guides, home insurance, home decoration and maintenance, and weekly real estate news quick-recaps. Occasionally, as part of the blog-writing process, he would also translate existing Thai blogs to English.
In his free time, Guy enjoys doing scriptwriting and storytelling for comic strips, watching movies, and listening to music (particularly film scores).
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