There is a general tendency to look at highly successful people and assume they have had an easy time of it. Outwardly, it appears their path to success was a straight line, from the bottom to the top without interruption. For those who have fallen from grace or squandered and lost fortunes, their path appears…
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18 Deadly Consequences to Prolonged Stress from Job Burnout
The emotional toll wrought by job related burnout (JRB) has been well described – emotional exhaustion, depersonalization (cynicism) and a lack of a sense of personal accomplishment. These can be devastatingly bad in their own right. But what about the mental, physical and spiritual consequences of JRB? You don’t have to search very far or…
23 Danger Signs Your Healthcare Provider May Be Impaired
It was late, around midnight when the internist stumbled into the emergency department, the one I had spoken with less than an hour earlier concerning a patient who had to be admitted to the hospital. He sounded okay over the telephone, perhaps a little sleepy, something I felt was probably due to the late night…
7 Steps to Eliminate Job Related Burnout from the Workplace
Studies show upwards of 90% of job related burnout (JRB) is caused by toxic and dysfunctional work environments. Yet, so many times the efforts to reduced or eliminate burnout are directed toward the individual and their symptoms rather than the underlying causes, those being Work Overload, Lack of Control, Insufficient Reward, Breakdown of Community, Absence…
9 Things You Should Know or Do When You Feel Like Giving Up
I’ve been there, multiple times. We all have. You feel overwhelmed, burned out, defeated. You feel like you have given it your all and things just aren’t working out. You feel you’ve made a mess of things, desperate, like everything is out of your control and there seems to be no way out but one…