9 Ways To Increase Your Mental Resilience, Avoid A Mental Burnout And Increase Productivity As A Result

It¡¯s easier to miss the signs of a burnout than to recognise the symptoms nowadays; considering the pace at which we live our lives outmatch any other generation prior to us. Since we¡¯ve gotten accustomed to accepting fatigue, stress, anxiety and psychological stress as part of our daily lives, we¡¯re bound to overlook the fact that at some point we all experience a burnout.

While handling tough situations require you to become mentally tough, learning how to build emotional resilience is one of the keys to handle and find a way to navigate through life¡¯s challenges.

Here¡¯s how to tactfully build emotional resilience, without forcing yourself to get mentally tougher:

Become compassionate to yourself and others

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As surprising as this might sound, this is one of the most overlooked and important aspects of building resilience. Being compassionate towards other and also building self-compassion, creates positive emotions and relationships between employees. Doing so naturally creates enhanced levels of cooperation and harmony in work relationships.

Take a break every hour/hour and a half or so

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Being able to pause for a moment, take a step back and observe the reason you feel stressed helps us look at our problems more objectively. This gives us the option to label comprehend and label our thoughts and emotions better, which eventually gives us the choice to change our perspective in our favour. Taking a step back to look at our problems more objectively helps think more about the problem, rather than stress about it.

Compartmentalise your tasks instead of multitasking

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Switching from one task to another can cause as a much a 40 percent drop in productivity, considering its hard for our brains to keep out distracted when doing so, according to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. You¡¯re better off dedicating a specific amount of time to finish a particular task before switching to next, to be as productive as possible while performing all your activities through the day.

Take a moment to label your stressors

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Being able to pause for a moment, take a step back and observe the reason you feel stressed helps us look at our problems more objectively. This gives us the option to label comprehend and label our thoughts and emotions better, which eventually gives us the choice to change our perspective in our favour. Taking a step back to look at our problems more objectively helps think more about the problem, rather than stress about it.

Practice the art of being mindful

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You cannot, of course, stop your mind from wandering in its path, but by becoming aware of the way it functions you can significantly reduce the amount of anxiety you face. One of the simplest ways to start this practice is by sitting for five minutes every day and focusing on breathing deeply with intent. The idea is to breathe with the focus on your breath while keeping aside your thoughts. Increase this practice by a minute or two every month and watch how your perspective on life changes for the better.

Visualise success before the thought of failure inflicts your mind

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By visualising yourself completing the task at hand repeatedly, over and over again, you create what is called a ¡®winning mindset¡¯ before going forward and getting into the task at hand. If you can see yourself overcoming the hurdles you face before undertaking the task at hand you¡¯re more likely to overcome them without a shadow of a doubt because you¡¯re mind has already been trained to do so.

Use the power of a mantra that you create for yourself and recite it in a tricky situation

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¡®Mind chatter¡¯ can block you from taking decisive action when you¡¯re stuck in a precarious situation. For instance, if you believe and resonate with the saying ¡°whatever doesn¡¯t kill me will only make me stronger¡±, repeat it as many times as you need in a situation that demands it. Reciting a positive mantra helps overhaul the ¡®mental chatter¡¯ that holds you back or creates feelings of negativity by trick your brain into believing that your only option is to keep going and there¡¯s no point looking back anyway.

Detach yourself from the outcome to accomplish the impossible

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Learning how to detach yourself from the result of what you set out to accomplish can be one most powerful ways to get through any task that you¡¯re hesitant to undertake and come back from any setback even stronger. As you long as you do the best you can in everything you partake in you needn¡¯t take the outcome personally. Instead, walk away knowing that there¡¯s nothing more you can give than you already have at that moment.

Salvage your weekends to become a happier and productive person

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A serial entrepreneur, angel investor and CEO of Founders4Schools, Sherry Coutu has mastered the art of planning her week efficiently for the past 25 years, as she¡¯s been on the ¡°I don¡¯t work at weekends¡± regime since then, she tells Wired, UK. I?have 60 meetings a week. We schedule time in the day to prepare for those meetings and I like to let the person know beforehand what we're planning, or find out what they want. Her work week ¡®unofficially¡¯, however, starts off late on a Sunday night. About 9 pm on Sunday, when I map out the week ahead and familiarise myself with what I'm doing," adds Coutu.