I’ve started to get some mileage from making boundaries. For context, I have chronic fatigue so I do almost no work at all, always feel I should be doing more whenever I can, and hyper-focus to occasionally do things in ‘big’ (actually still small) chunks.
It’s helped me to make Saturdays strictly a rest day (I try to keep it strict!) and not do work even if I could do a bit. And I’ve started sometimes making evenings after 6 or 7pm no-work, even if my focus has just kicked in and I could do some stuff.
Making boundaries to preserve rest as a valuable thing, rather than always “you can rest if you absolutely have to but you really should be working,” has been helpful for me. And I find sometimes it helps regulate the hyper-focus -> burnout cycle.
I’ve started to get some mileage from making boundaries. For context, I have chronic fatigue so I do almost no work at all, always feel I should be doing more whenever I can, and hyper-focus to occasionally do things in ‘big’ (actually still small) chunks.
It’s helped me to make Saturdays strictly a rest day (I try to keep it strict!) and not do work even if I could do a bit. And I’ve started sometimes making evenings after 6 or 7pm no-work, even if my focus has just kicked in and I could do some stuff.
Making boundaries to preserve rest as a valuable thing, rather than always “you can rest if you absolutely have to but you really should be working,” has been helpful for me. And I find sometimes it helps regulate the hyper-focus -> burnout cycle.