how do you keep from burning out?
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Karen,\nAs a university instructor, the advice I give students in your position is to TAKE A SEMESTER OFF!!  There's no timeline in life where formal education is concerned and in\norder to get the best life has to offer you have to remember that: a) most learning takes place outside of the\nclassroom and b) learning is a lifelong endeavor.\nTake some time to really think about what you want to do.\nIf you continue along this vein, you're really just spinning your wheels, wasting your time and money, and will\nend up with a career that's not suited to you at all.\nStep away from college for awhile.  Flip burgers, travel,\njoin Americorps....anything that gives you some time to\nfind your real joy and goals in life.
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Why don't you try to do something outside of work to keep your passion alive?\n\nTry a hobby, a craft or explore something you have always wanted to such as painting, water skiing, sky diving, learning Russian, or whatever strikes your fancy.\n\nLife is short.  Explore it all.
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Spend a little bit of time doing nothing.  It's harder than it seems, especially when you're used to keeping up with active kids.\nSleep in for a day. \nStay up all night and watch the sun rise.  \nPick a designated driver and go have a few drinks, dance, laugh, call to check on the kids when you get the urge.  \nGo to a movie, go out for dinner and order something sinful from the dessert menu.  \nStart writing that book.  \nPaint a room, or just a wall.  \nFinish a project.\nTry something you've always wanted to do.
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Get a second job.  That should keep you busy.
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Just keep yourself busy! Stay around lots of friends and family.
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Get plenty of sleep and work out regularly. \n\nSeriously, if you have a steady work out for about an hour a day (the morning is the best) you will have so much energy and it will keep you going all day. When I first started working out, I did it in the evening after work and I was up all night.
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You have to motivate and challenge yourself.  Try doing as many tasks as possible before noon.  Then double that by the end of the week.  Challenges are what keeps us going!
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Sounds like you just get in a rut, and feel overwhelmed and tired of working all that time.  Refocus your energy on what you like to do and commit to doing that at least one time a week (like walking, painting, reading).  Even if you have kids or a busy schedule, you should take some time in the week for yourself  (think nice long bubble bath or your favorite movie). Look for opportunities in the day that meant something, like cheering up a coworker, or doing a job well done.   Prayer can help or journaling.  Find a close friend to confide in, and ask for them to cheer you up.  They know you better than I do.  If you have written goals, post them on the wall and look at them every day to keep you going.  If you don't have your goals written down, then write them down and focus on what you are trying to accomplish.  And don't forget to laugh at the little things.  Like, for me, I was browsing through these questions and answers at work, and somebody wrote about doing a pee-pee dance and it cracked me up.  I almost laughed aloud at work.
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meditaition is great, otherwise just take a break from what you are doing for a while.
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Take a break that isimportant.  But what you really need is self motivation, like make physics or math apply to your life.  Take the examples and see how you can use them to calculate your day.  Also reward yourself when you get done reading through something boring.  I love ice cream
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I dont want you to be bored in the position. If you get bored you will become very unhappy in a short period of time. I want to keep you in one position for one yr before you move on or I think about promoting you within our company
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Get organised.\n\nMake a timetable and stick to it.\n\nMake people you care for depend on the results of your work (like for example, promise a friend you'll do something they need), so you'll have an extra reason for finishing your work.\n\nGet started without thinking too much about it. The difficult thing is starting, but once you're in motion, everything seems easier. I call this "cheating myself into working".\n\nSee a psychologist to make sure there is nothing that is bothering you.\n\nTry to leave things you like for the end, as a reward for doing everything else.\n\nFind the joy of what you have to do. I mean there must be something funny even in the dullest chore. Find it, and see if it gets easier to do.\n\nDo whatever you can with music, or good company. Of course, some things can't be done with music, because it disturbs, but others can.\n\nEat healthy, sleep well at roughly the same hours every day, and do everything else so that your physical health is not in the way.
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just keep urself busy by doing anything.u can do cooking,sing ur fav song,dance in ur own way.if u can't sing then listen to ur fav music,movies.they are lots more thing u can do to keep urself away from boring.
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get out more often, dont sit at the puter all day\ngood luck ;P
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find things to do at night with a companion [type] of your choice and do things at night that will make too tired to be bothered to "play" all day....get a "partner", get some "porno,start something that you cant quit, get a busy night life, work "HARD" all night,wear yourself out at night\n....get involved in "NIGHT" sports, get a hobby that doesn't make you so self-concerned...start to care about others and don't be so self-centered all focused on sports and "stats", GET A LIFE....
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Have something you can hit that won't damage anything. Like a punching bag. Take all the stress out on that until you're so tired you don't care.
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Hobbies are wonderful.  Meditation, pets, music, hitting a pillow, a glass of wine, reading, games, getting massage regularly, giving massage to a significant other, sex, laughing (preferaably not at the same time), entertainment like movies or TV, etc.  Pick something you like and do it.  The biggest thing I have seen that helps...just staying active mentally and physically.  FI you feel good you will look good and be your body and mind will not get as stressed and not hold as much stress.  Hope it helps.