Personal Strategies to Avoid & Alleviate Burnout

• Maintain a positive attitude

• Develop outside interests and support systems

• Make having fun a priority; diminish intensity

• Reevaluate your commitments, paring down what isn't mandatory

• Learn how to say "no" gracefully, but forcefully, to things you really don't want to do

• Engage in regular exercise

• Eat healthy

• Get enough sleep

• Minimize personal changes during phases of intensive stress

• Remember life involves continuous change