Digging Your Way Out of Burnout

Cass Polzin
8 min readApr 4, 2023

You’re feeling helpless, frustrated, and stressed at work, which bleeds into your daily life. It’s becoming harder to be productive, and you find yourself procrastinating more than normal, losing focus, and generally not getting anywhere. Activities that used to make you happy no longer have the same impact, and you’re starting to feel like nothing you do matters.

This phenomenon is called burnout, and it’s incredibly common in working adults. It can be challenging to work through burnout, but when you don’t it can become near impossible to do much of anything or find joy in…

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