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Burnout Week: Abandon

8 May 2009

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 [...]

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Burnout Week: Withdraw

In: Confessional| Leadership| Life Change

6 May 2009

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 [...]

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Burnout Week: Divert

In: Family| GOD| Leadership

5 May 2009

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 [...]

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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 [...]