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(4/18/22) Asymmetry

AO: LightningRod

QIC: Walkman

PAX: StrayCat, Lumbergh, JellyFish, Kiwi

Conditions

47 and clear. That sun is starting to come up earlier and we started the week on a great note!

Warm up

Side lunge x 10ea

Slow high knees x 10

Monkey humper x 10

Jane Fonda x 10ea

Third grade x 10

Halo x 10

Side lunge x 10ea
Slow high knees x 10
Monkey humper x 10
Jane Fonda x 10ea
Third grade x 10
Halo x 10

Mosy to the Track with coupons

The Thang

Right leg coupon GT squats x 25

Right arm coupon merkins x 25

Right leg lunges x 25

Right arm row x 25

Right leg split squats x 25

400M run

Right side Jane fonda’s x 30

Right side stretch x 10

Right arm shrug x 25

Right leg coupon GT squats x 25

Right arm coupon merkins x 25

Right leg lunges x 25

Right arm row x 25

Right leg split squats x 25

400M run

Leg leg coupon GT squats x 25

Left arm coupon merkins x 25

Left leg lunges x 25

Left arm row x 25

Left leg split squats x 25

400M run

Left side Jane fonda’s x 30

Left side stretch x 10

Left arm shrug x 25

Left arm coupon merkins x 25

Left leg lunges x 25

Left arm row x 25

Left leg split squats x 25

400M run

6MOM

Frozen Freddie x 10

Plank (w/ ea side) x 10

Bunny Hill

COT

Two CoT messages here today.

Sometimes life gets asymmetrical. You over commit, over execute, under prioritize. When you do, things downstream suffer. Some actions require countering actions – yin and Yang.

Your energy, focus, patience, presence, etc  are consumable. The older I get, the more valuable it is to say no and To find balance. To hunt the Yang. To under commit. Or to know what it takes to restore me and to be ok with it. In order to give 100% of my self to something.

Bertrand Russell, A Free Man’s Worship (Very worth a long read)

The life of Man, viewed outwardly, is but a small thing in comparison with the forces of Nature. The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. But, great as they are, to think of them greatly, to feel their passionless splendour, is greater still. And such thought makes us free men; we no longer bow before the inevitable in Oriental subjection, but we absorb it, and make it a part of ourselves. To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things–this is emancipation, and this is the free man’s worship.

And this liberation is effected by a contemplation of Fate; for Fate itself is subdued by the mind which leaves nothing to be purged by the purifying fire of Time. United with his fellow-men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love. The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death.

Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instill faith in hours of despair. Let us not weigh in grudging scales their merits and demerits, but let us think only of their need–of the sorrows, the difficulties, perhaps the blindnesses, that make the misery of their lives; let us remember that they are fellow-sufferers in the same darkness, actors in the same tragedy as ourselves.

And so, when their day is over, when their good and their evil have become eternal by the immortality of the past, be it ours to feel that, where they suffered, where they failed, no deed of ours was the cause; but wherever a spark of the divine fire kindled in their hearts, we were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave words in which high courage glowed.

Well done Men!

Walkman

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(04/15/22) – SwHOLY Friday

AO: Lightning Rod

QIC: Lumbergh

PAX: Herbie, Slash, Walkman, Jellyfish, Kiwi

Conditions

Frosty but dry, bit foggy at the start with the almost full moon shining down!!

Warm up

Mosey to the field, set out the cones and quickly run thru the exercises to ensure PAX knows each movement.

  • SSH x 20
  • Windmill x 10
  • Arm Scissors x 10
  • Slow High Knees x 10
  • Butt Kickers x 10
  • Monkey Humpers x 10
  • Daisy Pickers x 10 (alternating legs)

The Thang

Cones put out into a cross on the football field. Exercises rotate clockwise (3 different exercises on each cone – total of 12 total)

PAX starts in the center of the field with 5 burpees. Mosey to the first cone, complete exercise, then mosey back to center, completing 5 burpees every time you return to center. Second round add in bear crawl ‘out’ to the cones, mosey back (still doing the burpees). Round 3 bear crawl ‘out’ to the cones and ‘back’.

Cone 1:

  • Merkins x 10
  • Shoulder taps x 10 (HC)
  • Diamond Merkins x 10

Cone 2:

  • Pickle Pounders x10
  • Monkey Humpers x 10
  • Pickle Draggers x 10 (HC)

Cone 3:

  • Squats Jumps x 10
  • Lunges x 10
  • Bonnie Blairs x 10 (HC)

Cone 4:

  • X Factors x 10 (HC)
  • V Ups x 10
  • Big Bois x 10

6MoM

  • Flutter Kicks x 10 (IC)
  • Outlaws x 7 (IC) both clockwise and counterclockwise

COT

Good Friday

Today is the recognition of sacrifice. My faith is rooted in Christ and today is the day we celebrate his ultimate sacrifice.

The crucifixion day of Jesus is called Good Friday, Holy Friday, also Easter Friday. It’s a day for commemorating the great sacrifice of Jesus, who gave away his life to save us from sins. His death is an example of the ultimate sacrifice and unconditional love that teaches us a lot of things. Good Friday is a Holy day for every Christian. On this Holy day, everyone you held close deserves Good Friday Greetings from you. Your good Friday messages need not be too formal, but they should express your thoughts, blessings, and prayers perfectly for the ones you care about. These good Friday wishes are best for wishing someone a peaceful life and a blissful day. So spread the spirit of Jesus by texting your loved one these good Friday wishes and greetings!

That’s a wrap,

Lumbergh

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3.28.22 Cave Dwellers!


AO: >Lightning Rod

QIC: > Walkman

PAX: > Jelly Fish, Lumbergh, Kiwi, Stray Cat, Free Lunch



CONDITIONS

mid 40’s and dry! Pax showed up in good moods with sore legs from Saturday. YHC didn’t read the Saturday Backblast….so I punished their legs again.

Warm up

  • Mosied to 62nd looking for good morning merkins, didn’t find any, mosied to the tennis courts
  • Circled up for SSH x 10, monkey humpers x 10, daisy pickers x 10

The Thang

Cave Dwellers! Start on the edge of the tennis courts

Bear Crawl to other side of first court, 10 merkins, crawl bear back, 10 merkins

Guerrilla walk to other side of second court, 10 merkins, reverse inch worm back, 10 merkins

Bear Crawl to other side of 3rd court, 10 merkins, crawl bear back, 10 merkins

Guerrilla walk to other side of fourth court, 10 merkins, reverse inch worm back, 10 merkins

Pick up the six!

6MoM

  • LBC x 25
  • Good morning merkins x10 (found some!)
  • Plank and side planks x 10 each
  • Merkins x 10

COT

I shared that preparation has been a common theme in my life in the last few months, so I shared some from the Q Source:

Prepare for what you expect and the be prepared for the unexpected 

The first disturbance the Disrupter makes in the life of the Mascot is to elicit Commitment . To Get Right, the Mascot has to Commit to actual Movement, not just its appearance. To obtain proper personal alignment, he must stop seeking to seem and determine to be. He must decide to turn Pro rather than continue life as an Amateur .

The superficially-Committed Mascot is an Amateur. To him, what truly matters is only that he make periodic resolutions and look like he is trying to fulfill them. Then, when the circumstances of his life inevitably undo whatever small progress he might have made, he can repeat the process without being completely embarrassed. For that man it is all about the appearance of the process not the substance of the progress.

The fully-Committed HIM is a Pro. He views his proper personal alignment as a skill that requires daily practice to first obtain and then continually sharpen. Determined to be rather than merely to seem, a HIM focuses on Preparedness absent any concern of how that appears to the world.

Take golf as an illustration of the contrast between the Amateur and the Pro. A professional golfer goes to the driving range every day to get prepared for what he expects from his next match and to be prepared for what he doesn’t. He practices driving and putting because he plans on doing a lot of both–but he also practices his sand shots and getting out of the rough because he knows that his plan to stay in the fairway will not always succeed. What he’s wearing while he does all that is of very little concern to him.

An amateur golfer spends more time trying to look like a golfer than he does practicing his swing. He might go to the range if he can fit it in, but he usually comes in hot on Saturday morning five minutes before his tee time hoping for good things to happen and reacting emotionally when inevitably they don’t. How could they? He is prepared for neither the fairway nor the rough. He is not actually a golfer–he only seems like one because he’s wearing the right shoes.

A Mascot brings the same Amateur approach to his proper personal alignment. Instead of organizing his time around the daily grind required to work out his imperfections, he just shows up and reacts emotionally to his circumstances. For him Preparedness is something he never seems to be able to fit around his “real” life when in fact the Get Right is his real life.

The HIM is the complete opposite. He is a man who has turned Pro. He knows that proper personal alignment requires the constant honing that can only be done through daily practice. Unlike the Mascot, the HIM’s focus is on Preparedness–not just for the next Event in his life, but for his life in general as well as what awaits him in the Super Unknown.

Until the Mascot turns Pro he will be ruled by the emotional surges that result from his lack of Preparedness for the expected and unexpected Events of his life. He will make the same resolutions every December and break them in the same way every January. Because he is an Amateur he will start each day with the Blue Pill and live a life of seeming rather than being.

Fortunately, no man is too far wrong to Get Right. No matter how long his boat has been capsized he can begin returning it to the normal upright position with one very small Movement–the decision to take the Red Pill instead of the Blue one. He need only determine to begin doing those things necessary today to become a HIM tomorrow

True freedom is the predetermined ‘what’ that allows full focus on the ‘how’

Good work Men

-Walkman

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(03/26/22) – Freeze Frame

AO: LavaField

QIC: Lumbergh (written by 2Chainz – out sick)

PAX: Stray Cat, Kiwi, Walkman, Free Lunch, Steamy Nix, Danish

Conditions

Mild, little damp, and a glimmer in every guy’s eye!!

Warm up

  • SSH x 25
  • Windmill x 15
  • Arm Scissors x 15
  • Slow High Knees x 15
  • Butt Kickers x 15
  • Imperial Walkers x 15
  • Arm Circles x 15

The Thang

Mosey to the courtyard.

Hold wall sits for all exercises

  • Cherry Pickers x 12
  • Forward Arm Circles x 12
  • Backward Arm Circles x 12
  • Seal Claps x 12
  • OH Claps x 12

Mosey to the field.

Partner up, one partner holds frozen position while other partners knocks out reps. Then switch. Once one round of reps is completed by both partners, complete movement together.

Round 1:

  • Merkins x (10, 15, 20)
  • Frozen down merkin till partner 1 is done
  • Switch
  • Movement: Crab walk width of the field (football lines), mosey back, complete the remaining rounds

Mosey to courtyard. Repeat wall sit round above. Mosey back to field.

Round 2:

  • Squats x (10, 15, 20)
  • Frozen down squat till partner 1 is done
  • Switch
  • Movement: Lunge walk width of field (football lines), mosey back, complete the remaining rounds

Mosey to courtyard. Repeat wall sit round above. Mosey to the bleachers.

Round 3:

  • Dips x (10, 15, 20)
  • Frozen down dip till partner 1 is done
  • Switch
  • Movement: Bear crawl up stadium (on seats not stairs), side shuffle at top, mosey down stadium on stairs, complete the remaining rounds

Mosey back to endzone

  • LBCs x 15
  • Grounded LBCs x 15
  • Penguins x 15
  • Frozen 6 inches x 15

COT

Took a moment to share some personal updates on a family friend who is staring a grim outlook to a long fight with cancer. We were fortunate enough to pour into their family, namely the kiddo and take them with us on Spring Break. It was both great to see her enjoyment with my kids and having genuine fun. While it’s a tough road ahead and certainly will come with heartache, I’m grateful the God is at the center of the family and that undefinable faith will help them thru every day.

Make every day matter, tomorrow is never promised. My ask is simple, go home and hold your loved ones close and be better today than you were yesterday. Have a great weekend!

That’s a wrap,

Lumbergh

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(03/04/22) – Pass the Merlot

AO: Lightning Rod

QIC: Lumbergh

PAX: Stray Cat, Kiwi, Walkman, Free Lunch, Steamy Nix, Danish

Conditions

Mild, dry, and a glimmer in every guy’s eye!!

Warm up

  • SSH x 20
  • Slow High Knees x 10
  • Windmill x 10
  • Daisy Pickers x10
  • 3rd Grade Exercises x 10
  • Halos x 10
  • SSH x 10

The Thang

Mosey to the field.

Line up on the End Zone. Partner up

Round 1:

  • Line Up on the track
  • Partner 1: Run 400m
  • Partner 2: Incline Merkins
  • Switch
  • Partner 1: Run 400m
  • Partner 2; Decline Merkins
  • Switch

Round 2:

  • Mosey to Stadium
  • Partner 1: Run up and down the stairs 10 times (one group per aisle)
  • Partner 2: Step ups
  • Switch
  • Partner 1: Run up and down the stairs 10 times
  • Partner 2: Box jumps
  • Switch

Round 3:

  • Mosey to End Zone
  • Partner 1: Run 25 yards and back, Run 50 yards and back
  • Partner 2: X-Factors
  • Switch
  • Partner 1: Run 25 yards and back, Run 50 yards and back
  • Partner 2: Big Bois
  • Switch
  • Partner 1: Run 25 yards and back, Run 50 yards and back
  • Partner 2: Leg Raises
  • Switch

Mosey back to LR

As a PAX, block march back to LR. On Q’s call lift press block up and over to the other shoulder, continue all the way back.

  • Grounded LBCs x 20

COT

LANGUAGE (F2)

The Lexicon Of Virtuous Leadership

The culture denatures words to uselessness

Take the word accountability as an example. If you look that word up in the dictionary you will find some form of the following definition: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions. That definition, while technically accurate, isn’t very useful in advantage-seeking because it doesn’t tell you how you do it.

Moreover, the culture has further maligned the word into full-blown uselessness. Very smart people routinely say things like “yup, this is the year I start holding myself accountable.” While that may sound good, it’s actually a useless statement because nobody can hold themselves accountable. If that were possible, the word accountability would not need to exist because the concept of accountability would be unnecessary–we would all just lead ourselves down the virtuous path through our own self-will. But we can’t, at least not enough of the time to render the world free of the problems that the concept of accountability arose to address in the first place.

As a result, for the purpose of the Language of effective leadership, the word accountability has been denatured by the culture and rendered useless. Which is not good, because the concept of accountability is inexpressibly important to the skill of leadership. Without accountability, leaders cannot influence movement to advantage.

That’s a wrap,

Lumbergh

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Gwen and Isla


AO: >Lightning Rod

QIC: > Walkman

PAX: > Stray Cat, Lumbergh, Free Lunch, Danish, Steamy Nix



CONDITIONS

51 and drizzly – balmy morning and everyone was in good spirits.

Warm Up (Circle of Pain)

Warm up

Everyone snagged a bench and completed fire feet x 12, toe taps x 12, and step ups x 12 before mosying around the corner and down to the field. Circled up at the goal line for Halos x 10, Imperial Walkers x 12, Windmill x 12, Monkey Humpers x 12, Daisy Pickers x 12. Steamy Nix found us just before we circled up!

The Thang

Beatdown inspired by my Daughters Gwen and Isla:

10 merkins, 11 big bois, 12 lunge walks (Easy Count), 13 Squats

3 burpees

14 merkins, 15 big bois, 16 lunge walks, 14 squats

3 burpees

repeato until time is up. Asked everyone to remember what # of reps they made it to. Danish and Free Lunch made it to 39! Mosied back to the rod.

6MoM

LBX x 39, Plank/Side Planks x 39 (total), Frozen Freddie x 39 (yikes)

COT

I loved this workout. I didn’t post on Monday, and my oldest stayed home for a bit with me and insisted we do a workout. She lead us through 10 merkins, 11 big bois, 12 lunges and 13 squats. Last week, my youngest wanted to work out randomly one evening, so we did a few burpees (a few of you saw the video). I was excited to share this workout, and while perusing the Q Source I came upon Positive Habit Transfer. I thought that was fitting – my daughters want to workout with me because it’s such a regular part of our lives.

The Q source breaks it into 3 categories.

Negative Habits – work to eliminate these

Neutral Habits – work to reduce these

Positive habits – work to reinforce and add more

You cannot give away what you do not possess. Living right is being a HIM. Part of being a High Impact Man is understanding IMPACT, an acronym.

Influence: igniting a powerful desire for Movement
Missionality: Serving in the High Impact Zone
Positive Habit Transfer: ingraining Advantageous tendencies in others
Accountability: submitting to Standard through Enforcement and Consequence
Correction: zealously advocating for shared virtue
Targeting: initiating Missionality in others

I asked the PAX to take a few minutes and think about the positive, negative, and neutral habits they are transferring in their lives, and some good sharing ensued.

Great work Men!

Walkman

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(02/25/22) – Curls and Crawls

AO: Lightning Rod

QIC: Lumbergh

PAX: Steamy Nix, Kiwi, Walkman, Danish

Conditions

Frosty!!!

Warm up

  • SSH x 20
  • Slow High Knees x 10
  • Windmill x 10
  • Monkey Humpers x10
  • Halos x 10
  • SSH x 20
  • Shoulder Stretch (each arm OYO)

The Thang

Mosey to the field.

Line up on the End Zone.

Round 1:

  • 10 Block Curls
  • Bear Crawl to 10 yard line, Mosey back to EZ
  • 20 Block Curls
  • Bear Crawl to 20 yard line Mosey back to EZ
  • Continue all the way to 50

Round 2:

  • Mosey to 50 yard line, Crawl Bear back to EZ
  • 50 tricep curls (Skull crusher style on your six)
  • Mosey to 40 yard line, Crawl Bear back to EZ
  • 40 tricep curls
  • Continue all the way back to 10

Walk off field, active recovery. Arrive at the stairs, mode of transport up –> block crawls (block stays one step ahead of feet, swing block KB style set on next stair up followed by a hop with hands always on the block). Hold block plank till six is in.

As a PAX, block march back to LR. On Q’s call lift press block up and over to the other shoulder, continue all the way back.

  • Block over leg raises x 20
  • LBCs x 15 (keep your feet above the blocks)

COT

INFLUENCE Q2.2 (LIVE RIGHT)

Movement is a release of energy

Ignition is the act of setting something on fire and starting it to burn. It is the transformation of energy from the potential to the kinetic. Potential energy resides in something held motionless by restraint, like water impounded behind a dam. That restrained energy cannot be transferred until it is released and begins to flow.

Likewise the potential of a man. To become kinetic, to be transferable, it must be released into Movement. The HIM helps other men do this by Influencing them to open the floodgates of their lives and let the water flow. He does this primarily through example, by the way he talks and the things he does. Seeing this in the HIM (and the effect it has), the Sad Clown is infected with a palpable desire to initiate Movement in his own life.

A palpable desire is one that can be plainly perceived. Whether by sight, touch or feel it is a yearning (once obscured) that has been driven to the surface and can no longer be ignored. Until his potential energy is released a man stuck behind a dam is inert, suspended in a state of non-Movement. Through Influence, the HIM helps people release their deepest desires for action. He unblocks the dam to let the river flow. He unlocks the Status Quo and releases energy.

That’s a wrap,

Lumbergh

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(2.09.22) Hop Hop to the Top (This title’s for you, Kiwi)


AO: > Lightning Rod

QIC: > Samurai

PAX: > Bob Evans, Slash, Danish, Walkman, Lumbergh, Steamy Nix, Free Lunch



CONDITIONS

37 degrees and cloudy. Touch of chocolate rain at the end.

Warm Up

  • Side Straddle Hop X 25
  • Edward Scissor Arms X 12
  • Daisy Pickers X 12
  • Butt Kickers X 10
  • Slow High Knees X 10
  • Fast High Knees x 10
  • Mosey down to the track

The Thang

First exercise is running!

  • 400 nuR (backwards run) easy pace
  • 800 Run fast pace 80% effort

After each run, hold plank or squat until 6 is in.

Second exercise is a circuit around the stairs for time:

  • 5 Big Boys at the bottom
  • Hop with both feet up the steps
  • 5 Merkins at the top
  • Walk back down the grass and slide under the railing to get back to the start
  • Repeat with 10, 15, etc.

We did this one for 15 minutes. Most PAX got up to sets of 25.

Then mosey to the side line and buddy up for an experimental exercise:

  • Buddy carry your buddy across your shoulders
  • Run halfway to the other sideline
  • Squat your buddy 10 times
  • Run back
  • Switch places so your buddy can do it

Modifications were necessary, and PAX came up with some really good ones: buddy drag, wheelbarrow, lunges, air squats…

Then we moseyed back to the Lightning Rod.

6MOM

  • Reverse Freddy Mercury x 20 in cadence
  • One PAX ripped a gnarly wet one during this exercise
  • We are taking up a collection to buy him new shorts
  • Side Crunches x 12 hard count each side
  • 30 seconds Glute Bridge Hold with deep breaths
  • The air had mostly cleared by this point so it was safe to breathe deeply
  • 30 seconds Cobra Hold with deep breaths

COT

Q shared some personal experience about struggling to stay honest, the misery that dishonesty can bring, and the joyous freedom that comes from owning up to the truth and setting things right. We finished out with a prayer to God to help us be honest, loving, and kind.

With Love,
Samurai

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(02.07.22) Franklin Mountain Summit


AO: > Lightning Rod

QIC: > Lumbergh

PAX: > Bob Evans, Danish, Walkman, Kiwi, Stray Cat, Steamy Nix, Free Lunch



CONDITIONS

Frosty and foggy. Perfect Monday for a gloomy beatdown

Warm Up (Circle of Pain)

  • Mosey to the Track
  • SSH x 20 IC
  • Windmill x 15 IC
  • Scissor Arm x 15 IC
  • Monkey Humpers x 10 IC
  • Third Grade Exercise x 10 IC
  • Slow High Knees x 10 IC
  • Butt Kickers x 10 IC
  • SSH x 20 IC

The THANG

As many rounds as possible before mosey back to LR for COT. Goal is 3 rounds.

  • Run to the Franklin Statue
  • 50 merkins
  • Run back to track and back up to Franklin Statue
  • 50 big bois
  • Run back to track and back up to Franklin Statue
  • 50 squats

Great push by the PAX. Lots of encouragement and effort out there!!

Mosey back to LR!

6MOM

> Finished on the 6, holding 6 inches till the 6 is in.

  • LBC x 15 IC (heals planted on the ground)
  • LBC x 15 IC (standard)

Moleskin

A moment of struggle then focus on thankfulness

Shared some details around my family getaway. How it was a wonderful time away with just my crew but had two blowouts with our oldest. Spoke into that and how it just looms over me and struggle in them and I let them linger over me, taking away from the good that was just experienced.

My wife had an amazing idea to have my oldest pray about the things in her life she is thankful for each morning, I love it and have chosen to model this same behavior. Encouraged the PAX to adopt a way to focus energy on the positives each day to be that gentle reminder of why we serve others, especially our families.

> That’s a wrap, Lumbergh

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(01.26.22) – Clockwork “CORE”nge

AO: Lightning Rod

QIC: Lumbergh

PAX: Bob Evans, Herbie, Samurai, Walkman, Slash, Free Lunch, Steamy Nix,

Conditions

Frosty and foggy! But energy was high!

Warm up

  • SSH x 20 IC
  • 3rd Grade Exercise x 15 IC
  • Slow High Knees x 10 IC
  • Monkey Humpers x 10 IC
  • Windmills x 10 IC
  • Scissor Arms x 10 IC

Mosey to field

The Thang

Mosey to the middle of the field. Setting up five cones, one in the center of the field, the rest 20 yards away from center creating an ‘X’.

PAX starts in the center and always returns to the center station after visiting each station. Every time the PAX returns to the center of the field –> 5 Merkins (EVERYTIME)

  • Start with your Merkins
  • RUN to the first station do the work, NUR back to center
  • Continue thru this rotation, until all stations have been visited
  • Start next round by adding 5 more reps to each station, Merkins remain 5 reps always
  • Station 1 – Big Bois
  • Station 2 – Opposite Arm/Foot Touches in Pike Plank (HC)
  • Station 3 – Double Leg Raises (without touching the ground)
  • Station 4 – Pickle Draggers (HC)

COT

BEATING BURNOUT
Stress is a fact of professional life, but extreme and unrelenting pressures can lead to the debilitating state we call burnout.

Three symptoms characterize burnout: exhaustion; cynicism, or distancing oneself from work; and inefficacy, or feelings of incompetence and lack of achievement. Research has linked burnout to many health problems, including hypertension, sleep disturbances, depression, and substance abuse. Moreover, it can ruin relationships and jeopardize career prospects.

Resolving burnout often requires changes at the job, team, or organizational level. But you can also take steps toward recovery and prevention on your own: Prioritize your health, shift your perspective to determine which aspects of your situation are fixed and which can be changed, reduce exposure to the most stressful activities and relationships, and seek out helpful interpersonal connections.

It’s important to ward off burnout on your team as well: Insist on time for rest and renewal, set realistic work limits, boost your team’s sense of control, provide meaningful recognition, and ask people what help or training they need to succeed.

https://hbr.org/2016/11/beating-burnout