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Being burned out and being stressed out are not the same thing. Many of us can tell when we are stressed out, but often, we cannot tell if we are burned out.
Burnout may be the result of unrelenting stress, but it isn’t the same as too much stress. Stress is often about too many pressures that need to be dealt with.  Burnout is about feeling empty, lacking in motivation, and beyond caring. Employees experiencing burnout often don’t see any hope of positive change in their situations.
Burnout may occur over a short period of time or take several years to manifest.
Take One Action Today To Build Your #Resiliency!      Here are Tips For Combatting Burnout and Celebrating Mental Health Week:
First:
Slow Down. Take a break. Cut back whatever commitments and activities you can. Give yourself time to rest, reflect, and heal.
Change What You Can. 
Maintain Balance.
Talk to a Professional.
And Make A Plan. Part of the problem with burnout is the lack of control that’s associated with it.
Burnout can be a serious consequence of an unbalanced life and of an environment where the individual experiences little control and high demands. Leaders can help by ensuring a clearer understanding of what their job is and is not, providing as much control as possible, ensuring that demands are realistic and by recognizing the employee’s contributions and achievements.
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“Night shift can kill the body.”
Today is the day that we celebrate National Night-Shift Worker Day and the introduction of the 24-hour society.
One repercussion of the nightshift work schedule is that a typical night shift worker sleeps one or two hours less per day than a day worker and often has less deep and REM sleep.
Shift Work Maladaption Syndrome is where shift work is leaving the worker so sleepy that they fear for their safety on the job.
Take One Action Today To Build Your #Resiliency!      Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Ensuring Resilience In Our Night-Shift Workers:
As a leader, it is important to educate employees on what shift work entails and provide annual screening for shift-related illnesses.
Promote and educate on healthy lifestyle strategies.
Organize mandatory stretch breaks especially during the dangerous hours.
As a Night Shift-Worker:
Understand the hazards and consequences of shift work.
Pay attention to sleep strategies and avoid going into sleep debt.
Shift work is a lifestyle and in order to minimize stress and build resiliency, the worker and their family must ensure that they follow a healthy schedule, focus on their sleep strategies, and ensure that they have support from those around them.
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What superhero reduces greenhouse gas emissions by more than 20 per cent, overcomes gridlock faster than a speeding train, and leaps over distraction barriers in a single bound?
Hint: Often seen wearing pajamas while on the job…It’s not a bird. Nor a solar plane…It’s the Telecommuter!
So, here I sit in my pj`s working at my computer.  No stress spent on deciding what to wear to the office.
I appreciate the flexible work arrangements that I have.  It strengthens my resiliency while running a successful business.  Some days I work all day and into the evening.  On other days, I may find myself helping out a family member or pulling the weeds from my gardens.  This flexibility gives me the balance that I want and need.
Take One Action Today To Build Your #Resiliency!      Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Flexible Work Arrangements Week:
Companies that aim to provide a flexible working options encourage a healthy work-life balance, build resiliency and retain key workers. Develop a flex work policy that outlines what best practices they are expected to adhere to.
As an employee, if you are interested in flexible work arrangements, consider how this might positively or negatively impact your job, your family, your employer, your team members.
There are many adjustments that need to be made both by the employer and by the employee to make flexible work arrangements work.  Good communication and problem-solving skills are the foundation to working out any kinks.
So here`s to all superheroes working in their pj`s – May it be a productive day!
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Love this advice…If your shadow is shorter than you are, you should seek the shade.
Do you annually check your skin?  Wear your sunscreen faithfully?  Do you go and see your doctor for regular check ups?
If so, you are helping to ensure that you prevent skin cancer or at least ensure that you catch it in its early stages.
The spring is an easy time to forget to use your sunscreen. It is essential that we protect ourselves and our kids and know the early signs of Melanoma, that way we can all be safe in the sun. 
Take One Action Today To Build Your #Resiliency!      So Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Melanoma Monday…and Being Safe In The Sun
Check it out.  Melanoma can be found anywhere on the body, but it is most common on the legs, back, head and neck. Do an annual scan to check for changes.
Visit your doctor regularly and make sure that they do a body scan too.
Be safe in the sun.  Enjoy the spring, summer and fall sunshine, but cover up and use your sunscreen.
Cancer changes lives, impacts families and hinders workplace productivity. Employees coming back to work after cancer treatments describe a variety of challenges that employers may not be aware of/or consider in their return-to-work accommodations. As a leader, look for ways to educate on prevention and look for ways to successfully support a team member who has been impacted.
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Do you know where pink lemons come from?
Two 12 year-olds were left with a sour taste in their mouths after officials shut them down for not having a permit when they started selling lemonade in a dog park to raise cash for new soccer uniforms for their team.
Today we celebrate Lemonade Day.  A day which is designed to introduce children to having their own business. I still remember when my boys decided that they were going to sell lemonade at the end of the street when we held a garage sale at their great grandpa’s. 
Take One Action Today To Build Your #Resiliency!      Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Lemonade Day:
It is May and the weather is getting nicer, but we are not able to set up a lemonade stand…not yet.
What we can do though is talk to our children about what type of business they would run if they could or what kind of business do they think they could run now. The idea is to have a conversation around what would be involved, who their customers might be, and how would they let their customers know that they were open for business.
Fun Fact….
The Greeks were the first to make pink lemonade. They made this so that while the adults were having wine at celebrations, the children would also have a special treat. When the Greeks dyed the lemonade pink by adding wine, the common myth in the community was that this drink was made from pink lemons that grew in a forest that no man could enter and come out alive. They made the children believe that these magical pink lemons were brought back by a noble king. Now there is marketing
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Canada became the first country in the world to have a national standard for psychological health and safety in the workplace. This Standard contains a voluntary set of guidelines, tools, and resources aimed at promoting employees’ psychological health and preventing psychological harm due to workplace factors.
Take One Action Today To Build Your #Resiliency!      Here are today’s Tips For Building Resiliency and Celebrating Mental Health Week:
Get Clear On What’s Required For Building A Psychologically Healthy Workplace
Foster overall psychological health and a respectful workplace based on trust, honesty, fairness and recognition.
As employees, ask questions, report issues, and propose new ideas for building a positive culture.
Be sure to train leaders and employees at all levels on awareness and prevention strategies.
Look beyond the workplace to what resources are available to help meet personal, as well as workplace challenges.
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