Victor (Vic) Strecher

And invariably, they are more vital after they just finished a haiku and they all raise their hand.

I want to read my haiku.

So if you are burning out as an employee, or just generally in life, you might ask yourself, am I giving myself space?

Am I sleeping?

Am I present?

Am I active?

Am I creative?

And am I eating well?

And then over time,

Become a researcher of yourself and start asking yourself, are there certain letters there in space that are giving me even more energy?

For me personally, I found that being creative was the number one thing I could do to have more energy and get more control, self-control of myself.

So I love that.

Now, the second part of that question is if you have burned out like this person has and now they are seeking a new chapter in their life, that's a perfect time to start repurposing your life, going back and really looking

conducting that self-contemplation, that self-research, what we sometimes refer to as me-search, and asking yourself, what are the things that are important in my life?

You might ask yourself, who am I?

What is my identity?

And from that identity, I think I could start generating a purpose.

And that can lead to then asking the question, are there certain skills that I need to generate to become more effective in this next phase of my life?

Absolutely.

I mean, these are the things we've been told to do for, what, decades and decades, and yet very often we don't do them.