Breaking the Work Burnout Cycle

A Comprehensive Guide to Conquer Job Exhaustion, Identify Sustainable Success, and Revitalize Your Career

By: Ernestine Michels

Narrated by: Nancy Higgins

Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Are you trapped in a never-ending cycle of deadlines and demands, feeling disconnected from the job you once loved? Is your organization turning a blind eye to burnout, despite your colleagues and team experiencing similar struggles?

While workplace burnout is gaining recognition, executives remain slow to act, skeptical of the need for change.

It's time for you to take meaningful action, not only to prevent burnout for yourself, but also to foster a thriving work environment.

In this comprehensive guide, you'll learn:

• The five step burnout resilience formula: Shield yourself from the physical and mental symptoms of burnout and safeguard your health.
• Establishing boundaries: Preserve your focus and energy without compromising your needs or values.
• Leadership's role in workplace culture: Collaborate with your boss to create a supportive environment that deters burnout.
• Managing challenging coworkers and toxic bosses: Safeguard your well-being when dealing with difficult individuals, even those seemingly impossible to please.
• Seeking professional support: Discover resources and find the right people to assist you during tough times.
• The importance of breaks and disconnecting: Recharge and gain a fresh perspective to tackle heavy workloads and tight deadlines.
• Navigating high-pressure situations: Stay calm and focused, gracefully handling even the most demanding of circumstances.

This book delves into the true nature of burnout, a natural response to chronic stress that can affect anyone.

Speaking up about burnout demonstrates strength, not weakness. Even if your organization overlooks employee well-being, you have the power to instigate meaningful change that even the most resistant executives can't ignore.

Take control of your life and make a difference today!

©2023 Ernestine Michels Lammers (P)2023 Ernestine Lammers Michels

Revitalize Your Career

I recently finished Breaking the Work Burnout Cycle - A Comprehensive Guide to Conquer Job Exhaustion, Identify Sustainable Success, and Revitalize Your Career and I am blown away by how much I enjoyed it. Ernestine Michels does an amazing job of introducing a five-step burnout resilience formula that is practical and applicable to any workplace. The formula provides readers with the necessary tools to manage and prevent burnout while setting and maintaining boundaries. It emphasizes the importance of self-care and taking breaks which I found to be very helpful. I also appreciated the fact that the book is well-referenced and comprehensive for both employers and employees, providing meaningful change that even the most resistant executives can't ignore. The narration of this audiobook is exceptional; I felt like I was right there with the author. I would highly recommend this audiobook to anyone struggling with job exhaustion and looking for practical advice to help revitalize their professional life.

Jumpstart Your Career

A compelling audiobook that tackles the pervasive issue of workplace burnout head-on. With a practical five-step resilience formula, it empowers listeners to shield themselves from the physical and mental toll of burnout. The guide goes beyond individual strategies, highlighting the crucial role of leadership in fostering a supportive work culture. It adeptly addresses challenges like toxic coworkers and high-pressure situations, offering valuable insights. The book emphasizes the importance of speaking up and taking control, asserting that addressing burnout is a demonstration of strength. A must-listen for those seeking tangible solutions in the face of professional exhaustion.

Employer? Employee? Leave this book by your bedside!

This book is a well-referenced, comprehensive guide for both employer and employee. It’s much easier to put steps for improvement into place if you are supported at work. So buy a copy for you AND your boss.
As a past school principal, I have worked on both sides of the burnout problem. I would have been able to make very good use of this book, which is actually a guide. It is a book to read with pen in hand, to circle, underline and otherwise mark the passages that speak to you directly. They will draw a path that matches your needs on the way to avoid or repair burnout. Including references to professional help if you need it. What I really like about this book is that it shows many paths to the end-goal. As the author says at the book’s closing, “Good Luck”!

So important

Work burnout is real and is common. This book has given me some great things to do and think about in order to avoid complete burnout. I really liked the narrator too. Totally recommend.

The Reality of Burnout

I’m a retail pharmacist, the epitome of workplace burnout! With extremely high metrics and expectations, inadequate staffing practices, and just downright MEAN customers every single day, the pharmacy industry is a recipe for disaster! This book shed some light on an area in so much need for revamping. Reducing expectations, providing adequate staffing, and allowing pharmacists to do the job they spent YEARS in education for would be LIFE-CHANGING for us! This book taught me skills I’ll implement and keep moving forward. Setting boundaries for myself, knowing my limitations, prioritizing, not getting emotionally invested in the environment I find myself in, and leaving work at the workplace are all lessons I’ll carry with me.

Break the Work Burnout Cycle Your Path to Success

"Breaking the Work Burnout Cycle is a comprehensive guide that shines a spotlight on one of the most pressing challenges in today's professional world: burnout. With a holistic approach and practical strategies, the book offers readers a lifeline to not only overcome job exhaustion but also to identify a sustainable path to success and rekindle their passion for their careers. A must read!

THE reference guide

After you finish reading this book, you come to realize that this will become THE reference for anything related to work-related stress and burnout: the author describes the symptoms, the challenges, a concise program on how to best tackle the issue of burnout, and adds easy tips on how to actually address the problem. For employees struggling with burnout, the book points out how companies with Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), might offer ways to help employees cope with these issues and get back to being happy, committed, and productive employees. Kudos to the author!

A Must-Read (for Managers Too!)

This terrific book on workplace burnout takes a thorough and innovative approach. In addition to talking to those who suffer from burnout, the author devotes quality time to educating managers. After all, a manager who wants excellent and efficient work needs engaged employees, and this book explains the many factors that can contribute to burnout, how a manager can address those factors, and even how to be a supportive manager with respect to different personality types. Of course, the book isn’t written just for managers, and someone who suffers from burnout or even thinks that burnout is the cause of low energy, a desire to withdraw, recent bad habits, or other signs and symptoms will appreciate the author’s extensive research on (and personal experience dealing with) burnout.

The author also offers practical advice on how to address burnout once it occurs, including a particularly helpful chapter on setting goals, being willing to learn and grow from setbacks, avoiding catastrophizing and discounting the positive, practicing gratitude and kindness, and more. In addition, the author devotes five chapters to concrete lifestyle changes that are linked to improved mood and energy, including a highly useful discussion of the established link between proper nutrition and avoiding or coming out of burnout.

A particularly nice touch towards the end is the author’s recommendation that the listener seek professional help if the advice in the book hasn’t helped. Too many people refrain from seeking professional help for their mental health because of stigma, and (as the author points out) people who are not suffering burnout can be particularly dismissive. Many different types of professionals are described, along with how each one may be able to help someone deal with burnout or its symptoms.

Your Roadmap to Career Resilience

Ernestine Michels' "Breaking the Work Burnout Cycle" is a true gem for anyone struggling with job exhaustion. From time to time, my corporate job seems so monotonous so reading (or listening) to books about work burnout remind me to be grateful and to push through. I felt this book helped me identify the keys to sustainable success in my workplace (I’ve been there 15 years already) and maintain a healthy work-life balance. If you're on the brink of burnout or simply seeking to improve your career resilience, this audiobook is a must-listen, offering a clear path to revitalizing your professional life.

I wish I had read this sooner!

Excellent and clear rendition of one of the most common and misunderstood problems of the workplace today. As a former employer, I have personally witnessed the problems addressed in this book both in employees and myself. Highly recommend.