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by XLcommerce 5164 days ago
I was starting to feel some burnout a week ago after a couple of months of 10+ hour days 6 days a week. Refurbishing my roof worked wonders for me. Spending 3 days pressure cleaning, replacing tiles and painting did wonders for me. Obviously not the kind of advice that applies to everyone but it worked for me. Plus my roof looks great now :)
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I don't want to offend you, but from all I understand about the burnout syndrome it's hard to 'feel some burnout' (either you crash or not. Struggling with work/life is a different thing) and next to impossible to get back on track in 3 days, whatever those involve.

Good that it helped you and I second the advice of stepping away from the machine and doing something involving manual labor.

No offence taken. Sounds like burnout was the wrong term to use. Maybe I staved off actual burnout from developing later on by taking this time off. Either way some manual labour felt good :)