Posts Tagged ‘burnout

Part three of burnout week (Read part one here and part two here)
Abandon Annually
This form of protecting yourself from burnout is probably the toughest one to keep for several reasons:

if you want to take a trip of some sort you have to be faithful in saving money to pay for it
you must plan ahead of [...]

Part two of burnout week (Read part one here)
Withdraw Weekly
I withdraw weekly on Fridays. If you don’t take a day off each week, you are breaking the ten commandments. Seriously, its in the same list in the Bible as murder, adultery, stealing, etc. Whoa. That’s how serious God takes the sabbath.
And don’t call it your [...]

I recently finished Anne Jackson’s book “Mad Church Disease” and it has me thinking about burnout.
I have always used an idea that I heard Rick Warren say a long time ago:
Divert Daily
Withdraw Weekly
Abandon Annually
Pretty simple. But what does each of those look like? I’m going to take some time this week to break down those [...]

Mad Church Disease

In: Books

27 Apr 2009

Knocked out another book of my 2009 Reading List.
The book was “Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic” by Anne Jackson.
Anne’s book gives a real confession and information to help the reader diagnose burnout. She starts by sharing her own story of a long road towards burnout and how she prayed as a sixteen year [...]

Life is crazy this week:

trying to launch our new website.  Thankfully, my good friend Jordan Polk is helping me.  I didn’t realize how big our site had gotten.  There are literally THOUSANDS of files that I am working with.
getting ready to run the Las Vegas Marathon on Sunday
Prepping for the new series that starts Sunday, [...]


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