Andy Stumpf

When I wake up, I am fried.

I fight hard some days to stay off the couch and it helps, but I'm miserable.

I'm not sure if it's the sleep or lack thereof or an absence of a goal, but I find myself going down the rabbit hole of what am I going to do when I retire?

And the thought irritates me slightly because that is another nine years away.

Any advice for dealing with burnout for me and the folks that I supervise?

Side note,

I have an appointment to have my blood work done in the near future.

And I'm glad that you actually ended with that because that's where I was going to start.

Even if your blood work is perfect, at least, you know, and that is a variable that you can take off the plate or the buffet table, if you will.

If you don't have that, you don't know is this issue legitimately burnout or is your endocrine system burned out from stress from your job?

Are you not sleeping well?

All of those things could be happening in addition to your hormones shifting as they naturally do.

And they do it paces for everybody at a different pace, right?

They can give you broad ranges of where you might necessarily fall.

But that broad range, let's also not forget here, is supposed to encompass stress.

every human being.

So it's exactly what it is.

It's a range.

Your numbers might be naturally lower.

Your numbers might be naturally higher.