Burnout and Resistance to Change Are a Mix That Keep Us From Solutions

Are burnout and resistance to change connected? Absolutely. Moving in a new direction usually involves some degree of change yet many experiencing burnout have failed to move forward because they are so busy resisting the very thing they need.

We resist because we have become comfortable in the place in which we're at. We may even have become comfortable in a less than satisfactory situation. Eventually it will lead us to career burnout but we just don't get it.

We are familiar with the pain, but we fear the unfamiliarity of change more, so better to stay with something we already know than have to step out and experience, learn or embrace the unfamiliar.

Secretly we want to avoid change. We don't yet feel the pain enough to cause us to step out into the unknown. That step is going to be necessary to find ways to deal with stress.

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