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The key word is “recently”. Give it time! Nature takes time - to blossom, to evolve, to transition. You can’t rush nature. Take inspiration from this to lean in to how it feels to take your time. Life doesn’t have to be a race 💜🙏🏼
Contemplate your death. No, really. We think life is long. It’s not. The rat race is a ruse. We all end up six feet down or burned to a crisp, no matter how well we do or how impeccably we do it. Love your life (including your work) now.
Burnout is real and can haunt you long after you leave a job. If you have space and time in your life right now (and are making more money while you do it!) then I’d say 1) enjoy the win 2) focus on you. Work on that burnout. Reset your nervous system. Find that therapist. Build a healthier relationship with work now while you have space to do so. That guilt IS the burnout and your mental health talking. ITS NOT REAL. But it’s gonna take work to figure out what your real self wants and needs out of work.
- signed,
someone else on this journey who is still fighting the remnants of burn out from 5 years ago and still see it showing up in my relationship with work today. :)
It took me 2 years and a psychotic break to get over burnout after I left the job for an “easy” one. Like others said. It can haunt you. Embrace your new life and try your best to let go of the past. You don’t need to apply your old rigor if it’s not needed in this job and if you have years experience you might not realize how much value you bring naturally by just being present and not doing anything. Give yourself grace and let yourself settle in.
Question your “shoulds.” Why should you be “seeking c suite”? You can aspire organically without forcing something that doesn’t feel right. Just bc you can be seeking c suite doesn’t mean you should. And you’ll be a lot better at it when it’s naturally the next progression. Right now you need normalcy and will soon recover and get bored from easy. And start striving again. It feels far but it’s a lot closer than you think. You’re healing. Not taking a step back.
The race for more and more success is really self-imposed. And the way we work today is largely a behavior less than 100 yrs old. Forcing yourself to strive in ways that don’t make you happy simply because it’s the done thing doesn’t work in the end. Something always gives - the role, the family, the social fabric… These are my reflections as someone who always wanted to be the best and am now seeing through a bunch of the corporate speak to realize how little much of this ends up mattering.
If you aren’t in therapy, start there. Bc if you still feel guilt after reading your post, well someone can probably help you.