A Fresh Start – Dr. Joe Verga

There’s something unique about January 1st each year.  It’s a day like any other made simply of 24 hours.  Yet somehow that day seems brimming with more hope than any other.  People make resolutions to do things they’ve avoided or to stop doing things they know aren’t productive or good for them.  At one time or another, everyone longs for a fresh start. Read More

A New Year – Exuberance or Exhaustion

For some, January means a clean page on the calendar, a new beginning, a fresh start.  It’s exciting!  For others, having gotten through the holiday season may feel more like being the last runner collapsing across the finish line utterly spent and exhausted.  For those, January feels more like time for the vow, “Never again!”  Welcome to burnout. Read More

Are You Burning Out?

Rating yourself on a scale of 1 (no change) to 5 (great deal of change),
think back over the past 6 months or more—

1.  Have you noticed changes in yourself or the world around you?
2.  Do you tire more easily?  Feel fatigued rather than energetic?
3.  Are people annoying you by telling you “you don’t look so good lately”?
4.  Are you working harder and harder and accomplishing less and less?
5.  Are you increasingly cynical and disenchanted?
6.  Are you often invaded by a sadness you can’t explain?
7.  Are you forgetting appointments, deadlines, personal possessions?
8.  Are you increasingly irritable, short-tempered, and more disappointed in the people around you?
9.  Are you seeing close friends and family members less frequently?
10.  Are you suffering from physical complaints—aches, pains, headaches, a lingering cold?
11.  Do you feel disoriented when the activity of the day comes to a halt?
12.  Is joy elusive?
13.  Are you unable to laugh at a joke about yourself?
14.  Does sex seem like more trouble than it’s worth?
15.  Do you have very little to say to people?

If your score was:
0-25  you’re doing fine
26-35  start noticing things in your life
36-50  you’re a candidate for burnout
51-65  you are burning out
65+     you are in a dangerous place threatening your health

If you are burning out or threatening your health and need help
to get life back in balance, call 336-896-0065, ext. 203,
to make an appointment today.

Adapted from the Freudenberger Burnout Scale presented at AACC workshop by Debra Taylor, 10/1/05

THE PARADOX OF TIME

Excerpts from
THE PARADOX OF TIME
--Dr. Bob Moorehead

We spend more, but have less
We buy more, but enjoy it less
We have more conveniences, but less time

We plan more, but accomplish less
We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait

We’ve learned how to make a living,
But not a life