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AUTISM BURNOUT | What YOU Need To Know To Prevent One (5 TIPS) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey guys, in this video. I'm going to talk about awesome
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  burnout and five tips of how you can help avoid them coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the ask me world.
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  My name is Dan. I have autism ADHD OCD and
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  dyslexia and I make weekly videos on autism and mental
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  health. So if you are new around here
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  video. I'm going to be discussing five
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  tip Pro tips. I've never seen anybody else use
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  to help prevent autism burnout. We're going to be highly
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  effective. Okay, guys, how is it going?
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  Good to have you all here and see everybody having a good
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  time. Super good.
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  I'm super pumped to be back making videos and wear my old
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  Mercury and then we can see that but yeah, let me know if you
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  guys want me to release this hoodie.
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  It's been it's been out for a while.
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  But yeah, I just got making way for the new line and merge
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  coming out very very soon from yours.
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  Truly. Anyway guys before we get into
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  the video. I just like to answer some
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  questions. I've been asked over on
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  Instagram and if you'd like me to answer your question on a
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  video just like this head over to Ram follow me and put the
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  notifications on so you don't miss out want to ask you to ask
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  me questions and you might be featured in the video just like
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  this. Okay, Elijah and score.
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  Some G said did you go to a mainstream school?
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  And yes, I did Elijah. I went to a mainstream high
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  school and primary school and it was very difficult, you know,
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  but I think I learned from it. I think that there was like
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  things that could have been better, but I think I learned a
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  lot from it. Okay.
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  Next question here is from Uke's in Lee for five six and they
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  said I just want to ask if every person on the Spectrum
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  experiences meltdowns great question.
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  Actually, the only people I know who have an Autism Spectrum
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  condition have experienced a meltdown so I can only go off
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  experience of what I know so currently all I know yes, but I
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  don't know I can't speak for every person on the Spectrum.
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  Okay. The next question here is from
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  tasselled devil, and they said what do you find is the most
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  frustrating thing that people do when they know you have autism.
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  I think the most frustrating thing that people do to me
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  personally is they say, oh you don't look artist.
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  Because like what like you supposed to have a look at
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  orange face or something, you know, you're supposed to look
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  different way. If you've have an awesome
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  special conditions bizarre. Okay guys, so I actually just
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  wanted to show you guys just a big shout out to this company
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  called autism vs. Aliens.
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  They sent me this little care package in the mail.
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  So autism vs. Aliens keychain, and they also
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  got this lovely letter from them, which is really cool Orton
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  vs. Aliens and what it is is There's
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  a comic book company called free King comics and they've
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  Announced the release of this comic book, which is the autism
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  vs. Aliens comic book.
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  It's really cool. Actually.
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  It's a all done by people on the Spectrum.
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  I'm guessing written by Daniel wilfer and Jamie a idol
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  illustrated by Daniel Walther to so as you can see that just go
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  through all the yeah. It's just a cool comic book
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  about like somebody on the Spectrum vs.
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  Aliens. It's basically self-explanatory.
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  It's kind of cool. So I will leave a link for this
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  inscription. Below if I can find a link and
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  you can check out yourself. It might be really cool because
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  you know, I don't know. I just I was really nice and
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  send me the so thank you so much for sending me this guy's and if
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  anybody wants to send me anything hit me up on Instagram
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  in the DMS. And yeah, you know address.
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  Okay guys. So autism burnouts, right?
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  This is what you need to know to prevent one and I've made a list
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  of like five top tips here that I absolutely just love.
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  Okay. Here we go.
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  So the first one is taking regular breaks now taking
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  regular breaks. Is quite an interesting one
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  people think that like, you know people quite solid in the fact
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  that they think like no I have my schedule my routine and I'm
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  going to stick to my routine and that's going to be fine.
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  But the problem with routine is that if you don't put in if you
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  don't schedule in break time into your routine, then you're
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  leaving yourself wide open to have no respite from your busy
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  working environments. So say you're in work and you
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  just work all day and then you come home and you do more work
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  at home because you study in class or something and you go to
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  sleep when you wake up really early to work out and then you
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  do some more studying and then you go to work.
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  There's no respite that. Is no there's no time for taking
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  regular breaks because what regular breaks does is it almost
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  like gives your brain a reset says the brain okay hit reset
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  chill out start again and it will avoid burnout and autism
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  burnout can be something that will be an accumulation of
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  things that you are doing and it gets to a point where you just
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  have kick back and you can't take no more because you've
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  taken on too much stuff and then you just burn out and then you
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  just completely unmotivated. It has the exact opposite effect
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  of the things that caused it. So to me regular breaks is Great
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  one, you know, sometimes I actually now I never did because
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  I was always so close to burning out.
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  But my friend Jess from how to ADHD.
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  I was doing a video with her in Boston Massachusetts this year
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  and she said she said everybody who's watching the video.
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  I'll try and Link it somewhere in the caliber over in
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  description. She said hey, you know, do you
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  think Daniel should take breaks and I was like, yeah.
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  So now I try to put in like a Friday afternoon to into breaks
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  or sometimes. I'll take my my son swimming or
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  like, you know, sometimes during the week will take breaks and I
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  definitely have Saturday and Sunday off because cuz you know,
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  let's face it, you know do need some time to take breaks and I
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  find this amazing. It's actually help reduce a lot
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  my burnout quite considerably to be totally honest with you.
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  Okay. Number two quite an interesting
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  one. Actually.
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  This is knowing your limits people don't actually know their
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  limits people just you know, try to take on as much, you know,
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  take a look try and take them as much as possible.
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  They'll be like somebody says hey, can you do this and you go?
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  Yeah. Okay.
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  I'll add that to my to do this and somebody else says can you
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  do this thing called you have course and then I've found I've
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  fallen file to this alone. Times but someone says thank you
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  disagree. I'm going to do it now and it'll
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  be like, okay, you got a meeting of all I can do the meeting and
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  okay and you got to take me here for like six and like okay, I
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  can do that and it's like, oh, you've also got to get these two
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  videos done and that book written a little blog post and
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  I'm like, oh my goodness taking on too much.
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  So I don't know I live it now. I was been working with a
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  therapist and I have my limits my limits are very interesting
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  only two projects at any one time and don't be stupid because
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  I said just take on about four or five major projects any one
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  time and I'd look at them and think oh my God is a mammoth.
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  Tasks and my ever going to be able to complete these and I'm
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  like, okay, I've done to our signal too much stuff.
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  And what happens is when you take on too many things when you
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  don't have any limit set in place, what happens is you then
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  let people down by letting people down you let yourself
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  down and this could eventually cause a burn out because either
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  the stressful and people down all the stressful not be able to
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  complete the tasks all the stress of having too many tasks
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  on like as in know your limit, you know, if you don't have any
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  kind of boundaries there it's going to just be catastrophic
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  and your death We're going to have a burn off from that.
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  And that's one of the things you know, you want to try and
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  prevent burnout all these things are just to prevent everybody,
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  you know taking their life as if it's thing.
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  It doesn't mean anything, you know, like it doesn't mean
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  anything. It's definitely interesting.
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  You have to take care of yourself all the time.
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  And sometimes we forget we all forget to take care of ourselves
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  because we don't really think how much meaning these things
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  have because it's not in our jurisdiction to think.
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  Oh, yeah. I'm going to take regular
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  breaks. So this is why this video is
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  important. Oh guys this Is just a simple
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  free and super awesome. So please go ahead and check
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  that out right now. Okay.
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  So number three is quite an interesting one as well.
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  This one is don't overdo it. So many people try and do too
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  much or trying to prove themselves.
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  Like I'm going to push myself to prove myself, you know, they'll
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  be like I'm gonna you know, I'll push myself to work and I'll
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  push myself to work later hours longer days, you know, just
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  because I can prove it. I can prove people wrong and do
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  it doesn't work. You're not proving anything.
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  Anything all you're really doing is proving that by putting too
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  much on your plate. You are going to burn out this
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  happens all the time. I still all the time thinking
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  like I was just hard as ever and be like, yeah.
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  I'm just going to just push past it and do it you going to do all
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  the stuff and I'll just work late and it just didn't work.
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  I ended up actually has a negative effect on your mental
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  health and it has a negative effect on you and it causes
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  burnouts and and maybe probably eventually a meltdown and then
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  you have this horrible kind of like lingering like just
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  horrible anxiety stress depression ball that you fall
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  into. It's not a good thing.
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  Okay, so don't overdo it. Just chill just take it easy
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  don't you know your limits and don't overdo it, you know do
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  what you can do what you can physically do do that.
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  Don't overdo it people always have this mindset.
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  Like if you don't push yourself, you know, you just you're an
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  idiot and you're not doing your best and all the stuff.
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  Okay, by all means you can push yourself to your limit, but you
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  know your limit and I said, it's the last one you have to know
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  your limit. Don't overdo it.
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  It's very very important. And I feel like people really
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  need to just hate on. Listen.
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  It's me down and telling you don't overdo it.
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  It's okay. You're doing fantastic as it is.
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  I believe in you. Well guys, if you haven't
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  already, please like this video because like equals love and
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  let's share some love. If you like this video indicates
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  to me that you'd like to see more of this type of videos.
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  And if you're enjoying it also show share that left give it a
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  like. Okay guys number four, very
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  important one. This is so important.
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  You need to put down anything else that you're playing with
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  are looking at right now and listen to me.
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  Okay, this is reach out. If you're struggling too many
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  people struggle and struggle alone.
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  There's an old saying like a problem shared is a problem
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  halved and it absolutely is so when people are struggling in
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  work in life in romantic relationships and friendships
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  any type of environment where you find yourself struggling
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  some people try to prove themselves to be this like
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  strong. I'm independent I can do it
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  alone type of mentality, but unfortunately, it doesn't always
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  work, you know, it can cause negative kick back and then you
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  can feel that negative oppression and it can cause a
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  burn out. Potentially meltdown stress
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  depression all kinds of stuff. So my suggestion is this reach
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  out to your best friend or your partner or your loved one or a
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  family member or somebody who understands you when you feel
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  like you're struggling when you know, you're struggling reach
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  out because it's not a cowardly thing to do.
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  It's actually a very Progressive thing to do to reach out so many
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  ask for help. It's the most amazing tip.
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  You can ever take away from anything in this video.
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  Remember that one Tiff say Dan said I have to reach out when
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  I'm struggling. Please do that.
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  Okay if you have anything to Add to that actual Bond just leave
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  it in a comment below if you think it's a good idea or if you
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  haven't any other tip around kind of like when people are
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  struggling, I'd love to know so, please leave that in the comment
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  down below. Okay guys, here it is.
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  Here is number five number five is quite an interesting one is
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  something like I've not been able to do for a long time.
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  And then I've had loads of burnout and meltdowns and really
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  bad burnouts actually and because of that I then have
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  tried to start to implement this specific tip.
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  It's quite interesting we do. In this video because like I'm
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  learning stuff and like reteaching myself the things
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  that I already know and the things I need to implement
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  because I haven't been able to point these things and I'm you
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  know, I should be you know, I should be this is this is this
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  is our life man. We need to take care of
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  ourselves. So this one is implementing
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  relaxation time. So many people don't relax
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  relaxing is so important Nobody Does it right people just think
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  like, oh, yeah. I'm just going to work till like
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  3 o'clock in the morning and then just crash and those things
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  don't work. That's not good for anybody
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  relaxation time is so Important. So whatever it is, you do to
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  relax if it's plain games playing golf playing football it
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  going to I don't know a ice hockey game watching a movie
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  going to the movies watching Netflix playing a computer game
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  and iPad, whatever whatever it is that really relaxes you
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  taking a bath gone for a walk taking the dog for a walk,
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  whatever make sure that you implement more of that in your
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  life because life is for living. Okay.
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  Just remember that you have all this abundance of time and the
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  ability to enjoy Joy life so just make sure you put some
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  enjoyment in because what this does is it gives you regular
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  breaks just like taking breaks. It gives you regular kind of
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  like mini vacations because those things you really enjoy
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  that relax your body your brain will respond.
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  So positively to that and it will really help mend any
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  possible avenues that are burnout could occur from because
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  your brain mind body and your whole like being get a bit of a
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  reset and it's awesome. I love that.
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  She totally check it out guys. Just try and Implement a little
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  bit more of the relaxation. Time you'll so thank me in the
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  end. Honestly, I swear that's there
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  you have it guys five tips for improving and you know, I would
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  love for you. If you care.
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  I'd love you to share this because sharing is caring and if
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  you know somebody who could benefit from hearing all these
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  and learning these tips, please share it on the social media
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  like Facebook and Twitter because it would help me help
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  other people, which is amazing and sharing is caring like I
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  said, and I just want to help everybody.
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  Thank you so much for watching this video guys.
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