I'm recovering from burnout and need to rebuild my productivity without falling back into old patterns.
Burnout cause: [OVERWORK / TOXIC JOB / PERFECTIONISM / NO BOUNDARIES / LIFE CRISIS]
Recovery stage: [EARLY / MIDDLE / FEELING BETTER / RETURNING TO WORK]
Fear: [GOING BACK TO OLD WAYS / NOT BEING ABLE TO PERFORM / BEING SEEN AS LAZY]
Provide:
1. **Gentle Re-Entry**: How to rebuild capacity gradually (think 50% for the first month)
2. **New Rules**: Non-negotiable boundaries that prevent recurrence
3. **Sustainable Pace**: Finding a productivity level that I can maintain indefinitely
4. **Warning Signs**: Early indicators that I'm slipping back into burnout patterns
5. **Energy-Based System**: Planning around energy limits, not ambition
6. **"Good Enough" Practice**: Deliberately doing things at 80% instead of 120%
7. **Buffer Building**: Creating margin in my schedule instead of packing it
8. **Rest as Productivity**: Reframing rest as essential to output, not the opposite
9. **Weekly Check-In**: Questions to ask myself every Friday about pace and wellbeing
10. **Long-Term Vision**: What sustainable high performance looks like (it's not what burnout culture told you)
I'm recovering from burnout and need to rebuild my productivity without falling back into old patterns.
Burnout cause: [OVERWORK / TOXIC JOB / PERFECTIONISM / NO BOUNDARIES / LIFE CRISIS]
Recovery stage: [EARLY / MIDDLE / FEELING BETTER / RETURNING TO WORK]
Fear: [GOING BACK TO OLD WAYS / NOT BEING ABLE TO PERFORM / BEING SEEN AS LAZY]
Provide:
1. **Gentle Re-Entry**: How to rebuild capacity gradually (think 50% for the first month)
2. **New Rules**: Non-negotiable boundaries that prevent recurrence
3. **Sustainable Pace**: Finding a productivity level that I can maintain indefinitely
4. **Warning Signs**: Early indicators that I'm slipping back into burnout patterns
5. **Energy-Based System**: Planning around energy limits, not ambition
6. **"Good Enough" Practice**: Deliberately doing things at 80% instead of 120%
7. **Buffer Building**: Creating margin in my schedule instead of packing it
8. **Rest as Productivity**: Reframing rest as essential to output, not the opposite
9. **Weekly Check-In**: Questions to ask myself every Friday about pace and wellbeing
10. **Long-Term Vision**: What sustainable high performance looks like (it's not what burnout culture told you)
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