ARE YOU:
🛑 Feeling tired or drained?
🛑Lacking energy?
🛑Stressed or overwhelmed?
🛑Bored and listless?
Any of those could be burnout.
I was so humbled when Dr. Reggie Thomas asked me to write the foreword for this book!
I’d never been asked to write a book foreword before. Reggie wrote the foreword for my second book (6 H.A.B.I.T.S. of Powerful People), and it was an honor to repay the favor!
If you’re wanting to learn more about burnout, I hope you read this book.
Here’s why (it’s some of what I wrote in the foreword):
This book couldn’t have come at a better time. That’s because burnout doesn’t discriminate on factors such as age, gender, or ethnicity. It affects all kinds of professionals at all levels of their careers and in all industries.
Burnout is just as serious as Reggie describes. Personally, it wreaks havoc on our mental, emotional, and physical health. Professionally, it stunts our effectiveness and productivity at work. Burnout harms our relationships, our mindset, and our zest for life. And for whatever reason, we don’t talk about it enough. There simply isn’t enough awareness of what burnout truly is and how to address it.
Perhaps we’re unaware. Perhaps we’re afraid.
In this fascinating book, Reggie approaches the topic of burnout through many lenses. He openly shares personal stories that detail the causes and symptoms of burnout, numerous prevention techniques, and actionable ideas for how to recover from burnout. His stories are vivid and real, and you’ll likely recognize yourself (or someone you know) in the characters and their experiences. If you’re experiencing burnout, this book will help you identify it. You’ll find comfort in the stories and will no longer feel so alone.
You’ll find valuable suggestions for how to address what you’re feeling and move forward. Reggie tackles critically important topics such as practicing self-care, setting and enforcing boundaries, time and self-management, and exuding courage. This book offers its readers strategies for overcoming learned behaviors that affect many of us. For those of us who have type-A personalities or were raised to be perfectionists, people-pleasers, and high-achievers, this book will invigorate you. It reminds us we have choices in how we manage those tendencies and that it’s never too late to develop new practices and principles for managing ourselves and our careers. In that regard, this book is full of hope.
This book’s sound advice is universal. Reggie’s practical applications are extremely relevant in all walks of life, including work, home, or extracurricular activities. As Reggie details in this terrific book, different individuals experience burnout differently. Regardless of what you’re experiencing, this book gives you the tools and techniques to reclaim your mood and your life.
So proud of you, Dr. Reggie Thomas! Angela D. Hollen, I’ll never forget how I met this awe-inspiring coach, consultant, speaker, and all-around human!
