Burnout and Taking Responsibility - We Don't Want to Face Some Tough Issues that Will Likely Come Up

Having burnout and taking responsibility to do something about it will lead to solutions. Sounds simple. So why do we so often avoid it? Because we have to face some stuff. And it's stuff that is going to be difficult to face.

It may have to do with relationships that have been strained. It may have to do with activities that we been engaged in that we don't want to face up to. It may simply expose us as people who are not very effective in carrying out our day to day routine.

Whatever the reason, moving forward and facing change is going to be probing, exposing and at the very least embarrassing, so we hesitate, and we continue on with the pain of overload and burnout.

This is simply hiding. It's playing a game of deception. It's banking on the fact that perhaps no one will discover the real me. And it's playing to the assumption that if they did discover the real me, they wouldn't like what they see very well.

Funny, isn't it, that we have to talk about pastor burnout or burnout in lawyers. Yes, we all can hide at times.

You know, more than likely people will discover the real you. That is not all bad, not at all. Because you are going to deliver yourself from stress and you are going to be able to consistently be yourself.

And it is an assumption that they will not like what they see. In fact, they will probably appreciate you that much more for having the insight to do something about your situation. They will probably experience that you are a nicer more genuine person because of it.

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