Mental Health  
 September 8, 2021

How to Prevent Burnout at Work

Posted on Mike’s YouTube

How to Prevent Burnout at Work: This video focuses on how to prevent burnout at work while working remotely. The stress of working from home is now an important component of workplace mental health awareness. If you’re feeling burned out at work, especially working from home, then you need to watch this video. In this video ,Mike Veny offers you 3 powerful tips that you can use for preventing burnout at work. He believes that it’s important to have tools for self care at work so you learn how to not get burned out at work. As a workplace mental health speaker, he gives presentations and training to companies throughout the world. If your home is your new workplace, then it’s up to you to make it a mentally healthy workplace. The stress of working from home has lead to a type of depression that Mike refers to as “working from home depression”. This makes life more complicated because if your burned out at work, then you’re also burned out at home. So again, watch this video to learn how to not get burned out. One tip that’s not included in this video on how to prevent burnout is to remember that burnout is often the result of a lost sense of purpose. Getting clear on your purpose and maintaining a focus on it will go a long way to support you in avoiding burnout at work. As a person who lives with depression, anxiety, and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), Mike is also a high achiever who works from home. He’s no stranger to the stress, exhaustion and burnout that can come with working where you live. He’s learned that being intentional about boundaries and self-care are the keys to navigating this situation.