Happy Sunday! What do you consider the start of the week — Sunday or Monday? I have always felt Sunday was the first day of the week for self-care and Monday the first day of the week for working. It’s a great day to use doing things that fill your cup and that can include setting your intentions for the week to prepare!
We spent the past week focusing on part one of the Burnout series and then on Friday we kicked off part two! The first week was around what burnout was, the impact it has, and how it occurs. This second week was on ways to help prevent burnout before it happens.
You can prevent burnout by listening to your body and practicing self-care. In Friday’s episode of The Word Diet, we talked about different ways you can do this. Eventually, your body will force you to slow down as it snaps into survival mode. You can learn how to self-care now so you don’t get to that point.
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Subscriber of the Week
Quotes from the Burnout Episode
Submit Your Vote
Final Thoughts
Hi, Grandma!
The biggest news of the week — my grandma subscribed to my newsletter!
I wanted to welcome her in the most web3 way possible, so ofc I went with a GM post.
Quotes from the Burnout Episode
I wanted to highlight some of my favorite quotes from Friday’s space. Everyone shares so much great insight.
Be intentional with your energy
And when I think about burnout, wanting to simplify my life, I was like thinking — what do I do, that takes my energy away? And it could be very broad. It could be the way I wake up or look at my phone, or all the way to working out… And I found I've lived a fuller life by eliminating the things that take my energy, it zaps em…. And I focus on things that give me energy, and I'm not perfect, but I'm living a better life with less burnout because of it.
@frank_lofaro
If your energy is not going to something that is worth it, or is important to you… don't expend that energy, right?
Use it somewhere else — something is always either taking or giving energy.
@danksunset27
Set your intentions
When I wake up in the morning, what's my intention today? What do I want to achieve? What do I need for myself, so that I can achieve those things?
And then because I know my intention, as things are going on in my life, I can see if my impact is matching my intention. So if my intention is not meeting my impact, then I know that I need to alter.
So if your intention is always to give and you're getting told that you're giving person — you align.
@gaginersue
The Word Diet’s Intention
Okay, so the way we start everything here at The Word Diet — even when we started The Word Diet — we asked what our intention was, for The Word Diet:
what we wanted to achieve
what our purpose was
what our values were
and what we brought to everybody
And our intention was, of course, to spread kindness, make sure everybody feels seen and valued and heard.
So with going on with that, when we start our spaces it’s one of the biggest reasons we actually want everybody to speak — we invite everybody to speak, because we perceive that all of their experiences and knowledge are valuable.
@gaginersue
If you want the truth, I feel that as soon as I believe that I'm helping them, I actually take their power away. I choose to empower people to see their ability to do it themselves. And then that'll breed confidence and then they don't need somebody else. I feel that if I tell them that I help them — I become a crutch.
If I empower them to see the power within themselves — they don't need no crutches.
@gaginersue
And that's the whole point behind The Word Diet — is helping folks build their confidence and their self-awareness and tools to become more confident and implement that in their life.
@danksunset27
Watch How You Speak to Yourself
Imagine you told yourself a positive story, how much good you could do. So I always like to remind people, the story you tell yourself is your reality. And from there, it's like, shape it how you want.
@frank_lofaro
We've talked about that lots here, actually, because the stories you tell yourself are a choice — we talk about big choices and little choices. And people think your big choices are the ones that can impact your life. And really, big choices are the story you tell yourself. They're the ones that are going to change your reality. They're the ones that are going to change how you feel.
@gagniersue
Mindfulness and Meditation
Everybody just actually stop and do that — you breathe in. And you breathe out. You're right here right now. And anything outside of this moment that happened before or is coming, isn't right now…
That mindfulness — that's being present, right now is detaching, you detach from everything else around you. You just look and observe what's happening right now, without any story. Without a story.
One of the big things we do in our mind is we will create a story to feel safe, we'll create a story that will dictate something around us. So we feel like we have some control. That is what our thinking brain does, because its primary function actually is safety. It's what our brain is developed to do, which is the reason when you're walking, you'll hear the three people in your mind. I see Jonay in here, and this comes from Untethered Soul.
You'll hear the three people in your mind when you're talking, you'll hear the one that's doing the dialogue of oh, it's snowing outside, and it's kind of cold. And oh, that looks okay. Like, because you're creating something that you're familiar with.
The other mind is like, oh, yeah, that's kind of cold.
And then there's somebody else that's listening.
The person that's listening is the one you want to bring forward to be mindful.
So to me, meditation is the linking of all three of those beings. That's the function of meditation, but you're still becoming mindful during meditation.
@gagniersue
…mindfulness to me was like the act of being aware, I guess. And meditation was like the the practice to help you get there.
@danksunset27
And that's what mindfulness is about — is being aware and present in that moment. And you focusing on that song is being present in the moment. And then you having to rub your fingers together and touch is something. And we can get into that more — but touch is very much something that goes with like, mindfulness and grounding yourself.
@danksunset27
The noise of breathing has a sound, like when you breathe in — if you breathe in now, that has a sound. And when you breathe out, right, you exhale that has a sound. So I've told my brain and instead of saying the words in and out from my inner voice — to make the sound of breathing while I'm breathing. And it's helped so much with just blocking out the noise of my brain.
@theclaybrown
And I just embraced that I'm having those thoughts. And those thoughts are okay. And when I stopped fighting the thoughts, it was funny, then the thoughts stopped. Because there was no battle for control, I would just like, let them flow. Let them be, I don't have to control them. There is no control. It's an illusion. So I'm just gonna let it go. Let them flow.
@gagniersue
And it's more about accepting that they're happening. And you're just sitting there. And you're just — yep. I'm very overwhelmed with that. Yep, I need to get that done. Yep, I have way too many things on my to do list and not enough hours in the day, and that won't get done today. And that's okay.
@danksunset27
Feel Your Feelings
…we're feeling thinking beings, look at your feelings first. What are you feeling when you're thinking that that is a mindful practice, that will give you the little taps that you need before you get the frickin boat paddle where you get oh crap I’m burnt right out.
So, for one of the very first things I always do is actually feel my feelings and don't avoid them. And then understand those feelings.
That is a mindfulness practice that is very simple, and it's not meditation at all. And it will affect everything that you do in life.
@gagniersue
Loving myself is listening to myself and my needs.
@gagniersue
Extend Grace
…everybody has their own things going on in life and we don't really know what everybody's battling with. So the word that I'm using for 2023 is just patience and grace. Like you have to put yourself in other people's shoes to really kind of have another perspective on what's going on.
@nickyteed
Small Steps
…you have to find your tackle of the day. And I've started to try to get more on a routine that starts off by just getting up stretching, drinking water. It might not be the earliest every day. But I mean, as long as you're doing something to get your day started off the right way. That's how you can accomplish those little, those little challenges that face you and you don't get so overwhelmed with everything.
@nickyteed
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Final Thoughts
Practicing self-care is a form of self-love.
I will be choosing to love myself. No more burning out, forcing my body into survival mode, and telling myself that I am not worthy.
My hope is that you choose the same for yourself. I believe in you.
The Word Diet: Burnout PT 2