Eileen McDargh - Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Resilience to Refuel, Recharge, and Reclaim What Matters

More Praise for Burnout to Breakthrough

Eileen McDargh provides a clear road map that will give you the inspiration to do more and be more. This book will help you rediscover your passion, unlock your potential, and realize a future filled with unlimited possibilities.

Roger Crawford, Hall of Fame Speaker and bestselling author of How High Can You Bounce?

Burnout to Breakthrough is a bighearted book, written in a lively style with lots of relatable examples and immediately applicable advice. Eileen McDargh makes reading about a very serious topic extraordinarily engaging and gratifying. Its like having an intimate conversation with a best friendyou know someones been listening and is there for you. Youll come away with a better sense of what matters most to you and what you can do to reclaim your life.

Jim Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and Executive Fellow, Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University

Eileen McDarghs latest meditation on occupational burnout, Burnout to Breakthrough, is a much-needed component to the contemporary dialogue about achieving more by beating burnout and building resilience. By emphasizing the importance of personal leadership elements such as self-talk and energy management, Eileen makes a powerful case for the role of the individual in refueling, recharging, and reclaiming what matters. At the same time, Eileen offers a nuanced, broader perspective about a workplace that is preheated for overachievers, and she equips leaders with valuable questions and practices to help reduce chronic stress among their employees. Eileens new book is timely, relevant, and highly actionable. Written in her signature buoyant and empowering voice, its an accessible and empowering read. I highly recommend this as a spiritual companion to my own book, The Burnout Gamble.

Hamza Khan, cofounder of SkillsCamp

Words like disengagement, compassion fatigue, burnout, and even suicide exist across industries and generations. In this book, Eileen McDargh offers a powerful and proven formula for building a more positive workplace culture by helping people live more effective and resilient lives.

Joe Tye, founder and CEO, Values Coach, and author of The Florence Prescription

Youll be inspired by the wise insights. Buy a book for yourself and a friend. Work through it together as you answer the questions and celebrate your results. Youll be well on your way to breaking through burnout.

Sam Horn, author of Someday Is Not a Day in the Week

Get ready to get energized! From the first sentence, Eileen McDargh captivates you and catapults you into a world of abundance and possibilities. Eileen is the master of energy, and in her brilliant new book, she reveals her secrets. Read Burnout to Breakthrough and reap the rewards!

Jesse Lyn Stoner, coauthor of Full Steam Ahead!

The author knows her stuff. She has been delivering on this topic to organizations around the world. And she lives it! Eileen delivers a very easy-to-digest set of doable ideas that will absolutely move you out of the doldrums and back to delight.

Dr. Beverly Kaye, CEO, Bev Kaye & Co., and coauthor of Love It, Dont Leave It and Love Em or Lose Em

Boundlessly brilliant! The answer to our quest to move from burnouts to breakthroughs. Eileen McDargh takes us rapidly from Argh! to Aha! to Ahh. If you are tired of being tired and are seeking to be wiser and stronger and grow through the challenges that keep coming at you, you must get this book. Now!

Bill Jensen, author of the bestsellers Simplicity, Disrupt!, and The Courage within Us

BURNOUT TO BREAKTHROUGH

Burnout to Breakthrough

Copyright 2020 by Eileen McDargh

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To my GRANDS, Alicia, Clare, Siena, and Keaton, who continue to teach me what matters most

To my Sweet William, who refuels my heart every day

To my siblings, Susan and John, cohorts in cheers and compassion since the get-go

BURNOUT TO BREAKTHROUGH

Its official. The World Health Organization (WHO) now places burnout in its International Classification of Diseases diagnostic manual. Its no longer just a stress syndrome but rather a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized by three dimensions:

Feelings of energy depletion or mental exhaustion

Increased mental distance from ones job or negative feelings toward ones career

Reduced professional productivity

Let me phrase these dimensions in more common terms. Consider these questions:

Does the job that turned you on now seem to turn you off?

Are you working more but enjoying it less?

Have you lost who you are because you lost the work you loved?

Does life seem to be leading you rather than you leading a life?

Are you so exhausted that you cant even sleep?