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When you are at the top of an organisation, as a Founder or CEO especially - sometimes you feel like you are in the fast lane to success, you feel empowered - you feel like you're fire and no challenge is big enough to scare you... But other times, it feels like your life and business are on fire and all you seem able to do is watch it all burn - paralysed.
Burnout is the state of mind that comes with long-term, unresolved stress that can negatively affect your work and your life. Find out what the 5 stages of burnout are and what you can do to prevent it from being a feature in your life.
By the Calmer team
Everyone is talking about work-life balance but it can be difficult to assess whether one has such without a good way to measure it. Take this quiz to find out how you balance life and also see the results of all the people who have taken the quiz before you.
By Bin Burnout & Thrive
It’s just as important to provide a healthy wellbeing inside the working environment as it is outside. Here’s how you can make a difference for your team.
By Becky Murphy - Co-founder and Director of BabelQuest
Tired, losing productivity, motivation, sleep, feeling like you're falling behind and are overwhelmed - these are some of the symptoms of burnout. This quick test will help you reflect on your current lived experience and find out if you might have burnt out.
By Bin Burnout & Thrive
72% of entrepreneurs are directly or indirectly affected by mental health issues compared to just 48% of
non entrepreneurs.
By Dan Murray-Serter for Forbes
Successful entrepreneurs achieve hero status in our culture. We idolize the Mark Zuckerbergs and the Elon Musks. And we celebrate the blazingly fast growth of the Inc. 500 companies. But many of the entrepreneurs harbor secret demons.
By Jessica Bruder for inc.com
When you're living a well-balanced and healthy lifestyle, you're living a life that's connected with nature; it can be easy to forget that.
By Mark Woods - writer at Progress & Possibility
It gets worse before it gets better. A lot worse. That day was merely the beginning of the downward spiral that was a first-time founder’s entrepreneurial journey.
By Rachel Greenberg
Whether you are planning on launching your business, working freelance, or you have been running your own business for a number of years, it’s important to prioritise your mental health and wellbeing.
Here are 12 tips on how to start supporting your own mental health, as well as further support you can follow.
What are the most common mental health problems that entrepreneurs suffer from — and what can startups and founders do? Mental health experts answer these crucial questions, and offer their ideas for how to prioritize mental wellness while also growing a business.
1. Remember your why, remember your purpose.
2. Seek inspiration from successful pivots.
3. Develop new self-care routines.
4. Set firm boundaries.
5. Think long term.
Apparently, not all workaholics are the same. I used to hold the stereotypical idea of what a workaholic is and so I didn’t even think that people may be workaholics in many different ways.
Written by Leah Spasova
Dr Gabor Maté, the renowned speaker, physician and author.
He has written many, bestselling books including
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, which is based on his findings, from twelve years practicing medicine, in Vancouver’s most concentrated area of drug users.
When we equate work we love with “not really working,” it propagates a belief that if we love it so much, we should do more of it — all of the time, actually. But this mentality leads to burnout, and the impact on our mental health can be profound.
By Jennifer Moss for Harvard Business Review
The 130-hour workweek backlash doesn’t move us toward more sane working lives for ourselves or for the teams we lead. Actually, it sets us back. “We’re not nearly that bad,” we can say, and congratulate ourselves because, in our organizations, we only work 12-hour days.
By Mercedes De Luca for TechCrunch
If someone told you something you’re doing is adding to your stress and harming you, you’d probably stop doing that thing. Right? Under stress, most of us automatically have circling thoughts that keeps us stuck.
By Bryan Robinson, Ph.D. for Forbes