'Burnout is not a Badge of Honour.'

Around a decade back, I attended this conference in the South, where a popular Minister spoke about work ethic.
When you're young and hungry about success, you'd probably attend those kind of things back in the day.

Anyways, the year had just begun, and according to his itinerary, he was talking about his schedules running everyday, into the second half of the next year.

Matter of fact, he described an episode where his wife begged him to rest one night & he was like "I'm so tired, I think might have passed the realm of tiredness without knowing & just kept on walking."

The swaggering braggadocio from the atmosphere evoked a lot of esotericism, 'tapping-into-that-level-of-grace' and other asinine what-nots.

Would you blame us?
Success back then, was having 28 hours a day and spending it all on working.
In retrospect, we've all 'tapped' into nonsense at some point in our lives, but that's not story.

Younger people are dying more from work exhaustion these days.

The aftermath of COVID have worsened things.
Working from home now commands more hours, longer screentime, lesser sleep and bad dietary habits.
2021 is slowly brewing up a devastating monstrosity of health ailments for a lot of people.
With the recent spike in variants of this virus, communal work gatherings may not totally return to default in many environments and these health issues will only worsen.

Your work ethic should not be a ticket to an early grave.
Do not let anyone fund your guilt trip.
No-days-off is not a flex.

1. Close that work laptop after 6pm & take a quick jog around your area.
Don't be doing 'office-laptop-things' until 11pm over pizza & coke, while lying down, only to switch into Netflix thereafter until sleep comes.

You will soon die before you make employee of the year, because you're currently gambling with your life.

2. Get some Sun.
- Poor sunlight is linked to depression.
- There's a post showing how Vitamin D induces mood changes on my Timeline.
- There are depressive thoughts you prolly wouldn't have once you get sunkissed for 30 minutes.

3. Acknowledge your feelings.
- You are not superhuman
- seek comfort from family and friends.

4. Improve your diet & physical exercise.

- You're always feeling constipated and it's more likely because you're either eating only junk foods, or lying down for unnecessary long hours.

- Your bones will only get weaker and you'll keep accumulating more body fat, while losing actual muscle mass.

- Stand up & work. You're sitting and lying down for too long in a day.

5. Sleep.
- Your eyebags are terrible. Just sleep.

- 8 hours of sleep is not laziness.
Stop listening to charlatans pedding that crappy hogwash.

Your mentors that are sleeping only 4 hours in a day, will probably die sooner than you think.

Burnout is not a badge of Honour.