Organize your life to make sure you won't burn out - Part 5

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4. Take the responsability of your life in your own hands

Being in charge of the responsibility of your stress is the key to coping with the stress.

There are few times in life when someone presses you to take a vacation or rest.

It is important to be conscious and active while turning down your stress levels.

Work, studying, family, looking for work, relationships, even our hobbies demand our resources and use up our strength.

If these demands continually exceed our resources, it will cause fatigue and burning out.

A mature Christian does not leave the situation in someone else’s hands.

If the expectations continually exceed our strength and we are not met halfway in our needs to replenish our resources, it is both wise and responsible to pull back and maintain your own spiritual and physical health.

A wise way to control the pace enables us to continue in the race and crossing the finish line in things that really matter for the eternity.

Hopefully you have found this series usefull.

May God bless you every day and give you strenght that you need to continue your mission or step down if that is His plan for you. 

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Organize your life to make sure you won't burn out - Part 4

This is the fourth part in the series to Organize your life to make sure you won't burn out

3. Map out your stress load

When organizing your calendar use color coding.

Red for things with a hard stress load.

Yellow for things with that cause a normal amount of stress.

And Green for recovery like a day off, positive activities and holidays.

Yellow

Yellow things are activities or tasks that cause just enough stress that you need a normal evening or weekend rest to recover from them.

Red

Red things are activities or tasks that have a bigger stress load and require a lot of green around them for you to recover.

The idea is also that your calendar should not be too red.

The most of the activities should be yellow when you plan.

Make sure to add Green

How stressful something is depends on you and your personal experiences and preferences.

You need to decide what causes you the most stress and what helps you to recover.

Things that are yellow for others might be red for you, or something that is mostly green, like a vacation trip, can also cause even red stress.

This is the fourth part in series about Organizing your life to make sure you won't burn out

If you with to read the first part, go to Part 1

If you want to read the second part, go to Part 2 

If you want to read the third part, go to Part 3