| Sure, everybody wants to be successful and start | | | | 3. Workout. Exercise can do wonders to your body |
| their way up to the corporate ladder. Most people | | | | and is an effective way to eliminate stress. Be sure |
| spend most of their hours in a day at work even at | | | | to concentrate on exercising rather than the issues |
| times to the point of bringing work at home. | | | | at work. Try to focus and leave work in the office. |
| Weekends are spent with meeting colleagues for the | | | | 4. Tap your support network. Always establish |
| upcoming events of the next week. There are | | | | rapport and friendship among co-workers because |
| certain moments too that work eats up more than | | | | you will never know when you need them. It is from |
| the eight or nine-hour requirements. These are the | | | | them you will get your inspiration, motivation, |
| workaholic employees. | | | | encouragement, support and feedbacks. |
| On the other side of the fence, employees who are | | | | 5. Enjoy what you do and love your work. Bear in |
| too lax and find office work so boring are very | | | | mind that even though this is the case, it is required |
| creative in pretending to work. They find means to | | | | still that you strike a balance between your work and |
| make them busy or do other work rather than the | | | | personal life. If not, the tendency is for you to |
| office tasks delegated to them. These unhappy | | | | depend too much on work for satisfaction. |
| workers usually try to work on other "rackets" in | | | | For the easy go lucky type of worker who displays a |
| addition to what their earning and use company | | | | dishonest attitude in terms of the hours paid by the |
| supplies to attend to these unrelated works. Most | | | | company without working and using company |
| often, they absent themselves in staff meetings. | | | | supplies for other purposes outside work, here are |
| Both of these workers, whether they notice it or | | | | surefire actions he may find himself in and would |
| not, hamper their success in work due to different | | | | totally kill his career if he does not change - |
| circumstances and at the rate they are going. Take | | | | 1. Do not follow through. These are the employees |
| the first example, the "workaholic employee." In time, | | | | who perhaps are hardworking but do not produce |
| this person will eventually feel extreme fatigue, | | | | and deliver results as they promised. They may |
| stress and exhaustion. He will observe that he cannot | | | | execute tasks but without enthusiasm and keenness |
| get things done or he cannot do them properly and | | | | to details. |
| correctly. If this happens, burnout has occurred. | | | | 2. Not admitting mistakes. These are prone to |
| According to an economic professor in one of | | | | employees who often justify their inadequate |
| Americas prestigious university, Americans work habit | | | | performance and manifest wrong judgment resulting |
| of spending more hours working has been | | | | to decision making mistakes. Employees who are able |
| continuously increasing in the past few decades. It will | | | | to admit their weaknesses and mistakes are signs of |
| not be impossible that Americans will return back to | | | | confidence and professional maturity. |
| their old habit in the 1920s spending too much time in | | | | 3. Just being complacent. Those employees who are |
| their jobs. | | | | afraid to take risks get lost and at times left behind |
| Burnout is one of the guaranteed career killers in our | | | | by much younger and newer employees. They are |
| society today. Here are some recommendations to | | | | not brave to think outside of the box and live within |
| avoid such condition to happen - | | | | their shells. |
| 1. Allot time for play. Have time for your families, | | | | 4. Having an empty battery. No energy means no |
| relatives and friends. Spend time with them in | | | | quality work produced. Be sure to avoid being |
| out-of-town gigs and trips. Learn how to delegate | | | | burnout. Take breaks during your days work. |
| and train staff under you so that you can be absent | | | | 5. Not practicing team spirit. This means negative |
| from work knowing that you will leave a competent | | | | attitudes are always on the high level instead of the |
| staff doing your work on your behalf. | | | | positive ones. This results to low spirit, less |
| 2. Walk you talk. Do not let anyone burn you out just | | | | motivation, easily discouraged and pessimism. |
| because you fell short of other peoples or the | | | | Avoid all these career killers and sure enough you will |
| company's expectations of you. You have a different | | | | reach your distinctive place in the corporate ladder. |
| set of value system and therefore you have to | | | | Peel off your old skin of dishonesty and renew it |
| follow that value system and make a balancing act of | | | | with the new skin of determination and enthusiasm. |
| adjusting to other peoples value system as well. | | | | |