You need pinpoint the areas in your life that are causing your burnout, examples could be:
- Workload: you have an endless to-do list, and you are failing to catch up, everything just keeps piling up
- Control: or maybe the lack of control you have in that moment
- Community: there is a big lack of support with your co-workers
- Your environment: hostile and toxic work environment
Combating burnout must use an approach that addresses multiple areas of life such as work, personal relationships, and self-care. Once you have been able to list the possible things that could be causing your burnout you can use these some of strategies to combat it:
- Setting boundaries can help you combat burnout.
- Learning how to say no when you start to feel overwhelmed.
- Dividing work hours and personal time.
- Turning off your notifications or your phone when you are not working.