Great article. We often forget that even while we are committed to achieving success, we also need to take a maintenance check every now and then.

Thanks for the reminder!
Evelyn

Excellent article. Your car maintenance analogy is a brilliant idea to reinforce importance of what requires for our own longevity. We often put focus on material stuff like car for the fact that it costs money to buy a new car. Our life was not paid by dollars so we tend to put least value on it. Why otherwise we take care of car more than our body? This is refresher for anyone chasing for goals without making sure that first goal for all of us shall be a great health, great family and a great mind.

Thanks for sharing.

Shilpan

@Ron – I’d like to be continuously getting “major repairs”, but I don’t think it’s going to happen anytime soon!

@FD – Thanks for the encouragment! Our articles today fit together nicely. I agree that it is easy to start feeling a little burned out when you do the same thing everday.

Thanks so much for your comments!

“The symptoms of burnout include indifference, inability to concentrate, and in extreme cases we start feeling depressed.” Uh-oh, I’ve been feeling a lot of the first two symptoms, and the beginning of the third. I suspected I was burning out in my current FT job, and this article resonated with me. I have no plans to change immediately, rather focus more energy on my other ventures. However, the three symptoms brought on my first job could bring me down and affect the others.

In the past I have avoided burnout by taking on new assignments, new roles, etc, but I have been unfortunate in that everywhere I’ve worked I’ve been bounced around by management to tackle new projects/challenges, etc. This is the first job where I’ve done exactly the same thing for four years, and I’m feeling it.

Maybe I just need to downsize the whole car….

We used to go to bed based on when I had to be up for work the next morning. But that would mean 10pm one night and midnight the next. Plus it might mean not getting up until 9:30am and then going to bed @ 10pm. Just doesn’t work for the brain.