{"id":681,"date":"2023-04-17T23:59:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesunnyclub.co\/staging\/9426\/?p=681"},"modified":"2023-08-04T14:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T06:08:05","slug":"end-of-week-burnout-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesunnyclub.co\/staging\/9426\/end-of-week-burnout-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prevent End-of-week Crash & Burnout as a Working Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s past 5.30pm but you are on fire\ud83d\udd25 today. You are running late (again) to meet your friends if you don’t wrap up now. But you REALLY want to finish ONE more piece of work. You didn’t stop<\/em><\/strong> right when you feel “I’m good for the day” and you decided to push through. Right after that one final task, you feel absolutely FRIED<\/strong>. Sounds familiar? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason behind our end-of-week crash is the piling of this small overdraft in our energy that eventually accumulates to mini burnout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s be honest, my fellow Superwomen (or shall we call ourselves workaholics?), we are all guilty of that. My case is admittedly worst, I have mini burnouts on both Wednesday and Fridays as I try to finish as much as possible on Mondays and Tuesdays. Secretly we all know what’s our maximum quota, but we always want to push it a little further. It is when all these little moments of overexertion accumulate like compound interest from Monday to Thursday until our energy eventually completely depleted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the solution <\/em><\/strong>is simple:
Go slightly below your limit<\/strong>. Plan less and do less each day to be precise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overcome the urge to finish one extra thing in order to feel extra productive that day. This feeling of being extra productive is an illusion. Constant limit-pushing will lead to lack of dreadfulness to work, anxiety, chronic stress, burnout, suppression of immune and other health issues,<\/a> so we are in fact prioritising short term productivity over long-term productivity. Did you know that the Harvard Business Review estimated that annual healthcare caused by workplace burnout cost between a striking $125 billion to $190 per year? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A word of advice from a former workaholic and burnout queen herself, save the overtime quota unless you absolutely HAVE to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why you should work less to win the day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Do you know what causes athletes to fall out of love with their sport? The Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology<\/a> said it’s overtraining, perfectionism and being overly critical to their mistakes. In sports, “Overtraining Syndrome” caused athletes to have worse<\/em><\/strong> performance. Shockingly, the 2008 Olympian gold medalist rower Wetzel shared that in preparation for the Olympics, he consistently trained below his maximum effort (except for one day of the week where he pushes to the his limit, so he know where his limit is).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we constantly push ourselves past our limit, we will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n