What is burnout, and what are its early warning signs?
If you’re experiencing a sense of physical and mental exhaustion occurring at the same time as overworking, these might be the signs of burnout — a form of chronic or extended period of stress. Burnout symptoms, aside from mental exhaustion, include a heightened sense of self-doubt and fear of failure, feeling overwhelmed, and being emotionally drained.
If you’re going through this, you might want to know how to recover from burnout. And the good news is that there are several apps and tips for success in handling burnout before it begins or managing it even when you’ve been experiencing it for some time.
5 tips for success and apps for handling burnout
So that you can avoid experiencing burnout and the stressful feelings that come with it, this article contains multiple apps and tips you can use. Let’s go straight to those apps and tips to ensure you’re equipped to leave burnout behind.
Track the time spent on each app
Tracking how much time you spend using each app or function on your Mac is our FIRST tip for avoiding burnout. You can do this with the Timing app, which delves into plenty of detail on your app-related activity, provides data related to the software you used, and lets you know how you used it. As time passes by when you’re using the app, Timing will reveal how you spent your time in a graph form.
A unique category represents each portion of the graph, so you’ll see categories such as Office & Business, Web Browsing, Media, and more. When you navigate to the Mac menu bar, you can view the productivity percentage. It collects so much information, even within a 25-minute period, which is why you might want to use it yourself.
