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Have you given your mind a break yet?

It’s important to match the intensity of your work stress with the intensity of your recovery.

But what does that mean?

Well, if you have a busy day at work, give yourself time after work to do activities that let you rest and recover for the next day! This can help you decrease your burnout rate during the week and prevent carrying that weight of stress and anxiety onto the next day.

Jeff Riseley, the Founder of Sales Health Alliance, used the comparison between our mind and body and treating our work days like workout days. This analogy is a great way to understand the recovery process that our minds need to get back into its optimal state. If we start handling our brain the same way as our body, we will feel better about ourselves and our stress.

For example, if we’re working out and we tear a muscle or experience more soreness than usual, we are told that we need to take the rest of the week off or slow down a bit. So why not do that when we are burnt out from work?

This is not to say stop working, because we normally can’t just take the week off on a whim, but the message here is to incorporate self-care routines into our workday and intentionally relax on our days off.

The world won’t stop for you but you are allowed to pause for a bit and take a few deep breaths before you go back to the grind.

To learn more on how to take care of yourself during the stress of work, check out Season 1, Episode 6: Mental Health in Sales with Jeff Riseley.