Why you need to do more, and accomplish and create more, on a consistent and regular basis, in order to avoid fatigue, exhaustion, depression, lack of motivation and sense of meaning and fulfillment, and burnout.
The answer to your perpetual state of fatigue, exhaustion, low energy, depression, lack of motivation, and burnout, is to always do more. More achievement, accomplishment, progress, and productivity. More work, more outcome, more things done per day, week, month, year, decade, according to what’s meaningful and fulfilling to you, according to your standards, core values, what matters to you, and what’s most important to you. According to what’s most rewarding to you, and gives you the most and highest sense of accomplishment, achievement, reward, fulfillment, satisfaction, success, and happiness. That is what you need to do more of, to accomplish more of, in order to avoid burnout. Not doing less, to save your energy, and spend it wisely.
Doing less, will actually lead to more burnout in the long-term, because you will never have enough Dopamine.
Not having enough Dopamine means everything will be way more difficult to do.
Everything will feel like moving mountains. Even the simplest of tasks.
Everything will be too mentally and physically exhausting to do, no matter how easy or simple the task is.
And then you will find that you will be spending way too much energy, just to get the least amount of tasks or things done, even though you’re doing less, or aiming for doing or accomplishing less per day, or per week.
You will literally be spending more energy, doing the same things, or on the same things.
Let me say that again.
The same task will now need more energy to get it done. You will need more energy to accomplish the same type of tasks, work, or things, compared to what you will need to do the same, in case you had more dopamine in your system, to begin with.
The same thing, will be harder, more exhausting, more demanding of focus, energy, and time, when you are running on low dopamine, or when you have low dopamine when you attempt to do them, than when you have more dopamine, serotonin, and reward, in your system, before you get started.
So you will end up spending more energy, in order to do less stuff, just because of your general decision, to start doing less in life, or to work less, in a futile attempt to avoid the inevitable burnout.
In order to avoid burnout, or exhaustion, you ended up doing the very thing that leads to burnout, which is doing less, which depletes your system of dopamine, until everything becomes too energy demanding and consuming, which leads to hitting burnout prematurely, always.
Everything suddenly feels like moving mountains. Everything now needs you to spend an endless amount of energy just to get it over with, even if it’s the easiest thing ever. Even the most simple of tasks, ever.
Doing less, will always backfire. It will lead to nothing but depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, fatigue, helplessness, hopelessness, lack of motivation, inspiration, and enthusiasm. Less energy, and apathy. Indifference. Loss of interest, and creativity. Loss of meaning of life. Cognitive decline, mental health and well-being decline. Mental fitness decline. Mental exhaustion all the time, before you even get started. Decline of intelligence and abilities over time. Less progress, less productivity, less overall life satisfaction and fulfilment. Less happiness. Less everything.
Doing less, does nothing but deplete your Energy, Dopamine, Serotonin, and Reward levels. Which will lead to depression, cognitive decline, low energy, exhaustion, major depressive disorder, and burnout, like no other.
By doing less, I’m referring to accomplishing less, in terms of what’s actually is meaningful for you. What’s actually worth it, for you, according to your core values, and what matters to you, and what’s important to you. What makes a difference, according to your standards, and what you think is true. What is actually rewarding, and feels like a major accomplishment or achievement, afterwards, for good, for you. What is true, to your most authentic self. What your highest self thinks is worthy of your time, life, health, energy, and effort, and leads to the highest sense of accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment, and satisfaction, you could ever have. According to you, your standards, and what you know is true for you.
What makes you happy, according to your definition of happiness. On your own terms. According to your own standards.
Doing more of that, is the only way out of burnout.
Nothing else works.
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