Anybody else experiencing project burnout?

boostfrk said:

This is probably going to be the sappiest thing I've ever written on here, but I read an article in Southwest Airlines' magazine last week about our "rush-rush" lifestyle and how unhealthy it is. The article started out with the author describing how he was always checking his cell phone, answering e-mails, checking Facebook, etc. Everything was always go go go.

One night he found himself yelling at his wife because she couldn't do something right and then yelling at his kid. He realized this was no way to live and decided to have a "slowvember", or a slow November. He took time with his kids, wife, etc. and put away the daily stresses of life when he was around them. What a difference it made.

This really hit close for me too. My wife works long hours; we're up at 5 and getting the kids up around 5:45 or 6; she leaves the house by 6:30-6:45 and then doesn't get back home until 6 at night with the kids. I try to have dinner ready when they get home, we eat, have an hour or so to play, then it's time to start getting ready for bed. During that hour my wife and I were still checking work e-mails, doing the dishes, etc. and just letting our kids idle by.

Since last Friday I've tried to loosely mimic what I read in that article. Sure it's only a few days but I can already see a difference. I'm less stressed, our daughter is less combative and easier to get along with, probably because we're not rushing her around yelling at her to get ready and "do the next thing". We're letting her be a kid.

I can send you the link for the article if you want to read it fully.

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