Burnout Because You Don't Manage Time, Here's How To Solve It With Timeboxing
Illustration of timeboxing, how to manage time to overcome burnout (iStockphoto/Ivan-balvan)

YOGYAKARTA Working indefinitely until you don't take advantage of your optimal rest time, can trigger a feeling of saturation or burnout. This phenomenon began to spread during the pandemic, while working can be done at home. Working at home, making restrictions run away. If based on a survey conducted in 2021 in America, 52 percent of the 1,500 respondents reported increased fatigue during the pandemic.

Feelings of saturation and fatigue affect many things, including relationships, parenting, attention, focus, and romantic relationships. The boundaries between work and personal life that escape, make the two unbalanced.

The effect on how a person is more complicated in controlling time. Launching Psychology Today, Monday, September 26, timeboxing is a way to set time in more detail. That way, things that trigger burnout can be overcome.

Burnout is emotional, mental, and often physically exhausted caused by prolonged and repetitive stress. Nir▁dugaanal, a teacher at Stanford's Graduate School of Business who wrote the book filling: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, reviewed many opinions about what burnout was.

Some say that burnout is related to working hours without purpose, clarity, direction, or pleasure by 'employees'. Workers who take advantage of time other than work lead to reckless actions that lead to fatigue.

Another opinion relates to minimizing burnout, which is not to work less but to provide space in life for self-care and fill time with what you like. The goal is to stay connected to ourselves.

Robert Glazer in his book Eleve wrote, reducing fatigue does not mean reducing our workload, this is more about how the energy reallocation is. On the other hand, Jennifer Moss, author of The Burnout Epidemic, writes about the cause of burnout, namely lack of control, imbalance in work life, and unclear work expectations.

Shaal himself initiated that one needs to balance aspects of life and manage time realisticly. In time management, there is a timeboxing method.

Timeboxing is a time management technique. This technique helps you make sure you don't spend more on one thing you don't need. First,ctional suggests identifying the values of your life. Including independence, tolerance, and determination. When defined, the action taken can make us move forward.

Second, categorize values in the three domains of life, namely for yourself, your relationship, and your work. Of the three domains, of course there are things we don't want to do. Therefore it requires dedication to do this.

Fourth, by grouping values and ensuring these values are included in your schedule, it means that you have found a balance between doing what you have to do and doing what you want to do.

That's how to use timeboxing so that time can be used as well as possible. It also helps you find self-control and avoid burnout or boredom.


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