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GTD/DA Position First and foremost, the Inbox should be emptied whenever you can process it, although its recommended to do it every 24 to 48 hours. David Allen addresses this in Making It All Work: Use and Empty Your In-baskets This practice should be self-evident by now (if it wasn't to begin with)--you've got to use your in-baskets for them to ...

I think you made a good first step by asking here. One way to relieve stress and burnout is to write down the problem, communicate it with others, and define steps to fix it. Overall you want to get the stress and burnout out of your subconscious, so your subconscious can feel like you have relaxed control of yourself, regardless of the external situation. ...

Here's a left-field idea: find a local Brazilian jiu jitsu school and take a class. You will find it impossible to maintain any kind of residual attention (ie, thinking about things after you've left work) when you're literally fighting for your life. You'll have the added advantage of improving your fitness and self esteem, whilst learning something new ...

This site is devoted to practical, tangible steps and systems that can increase personal productivity, but perhaps the most important insight is that all systems have their limits and that it's important to be able to realize if and when you've reached a point where your commitments exceed your ability to meet them. Only then can you make the transition ...

I recommend trying to Pomodoro Technique http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/products.html#pomodoropdf you can get the ebook for free from the pomodoro site. Bascially, it forces you to break up tasks into pomodoro's which are 25 minutes in length, then you take a 5 minute break. After 4 pomodoros you take an extneded break. This could help you with the burn ...

The way I 'fix' this (for me at least) is by giving actions a specific start-date. For example: taking out the trash is in my inbox but but I don't have to do it until next Friday. So the starting date for that action would be next Thursday evening or next Friday morning. That way, when I go over the things that I need to do today, taking out the trash is ...

As describe in Hyper Productivity Theory, you need four factors to become hyper productive: Responsiveness, Motivation, Communication, Courage. The first three are enough to bring you back to the brighter side. Reponsiveness: Don't work on big piece of works, split it to several smaller tasks. More time you found that you can make them done, your ...

I think this is not a good approach to the problem even if in the past I have always found better payed job. I'd be interested to see your reasoning behind this. Sometimes, if you are dealing with a poisonous management and work culture, it is the very, very best approach to take. You really need to see what's causing your stress/pressure and how many ...

I deal with this issue a lot and I have taken a more "bottom-up" posture on it. The following is not from any system, but is provided as a real-world, functioning answer to this issue: Target Positivity - Ultimately, being "overwhelmed" happens the moment you decide you are. It's a completely subjective viewpoint in which you are saying that you should ...

Take a look at David Allen's Getting Things Done. It's a well-known book/system that approaches this exactly, and it does work. The gist of it is: Write down everything in your head. Everything you want to do. Whether it's urgent or something you want to do in the long run. Just jot it down and deal with it in the next step. Process that stuff. Throw away ...

Burnout is a serious illness, contact a specialist -- a MD -- immediately. As far as I know the burnout can cause problems with, e.g., adrenaline production in your body (and exhaust other hormone production). So your body need a much stronger stimulus to get motivated in a critical situation. In the end it is harder and harder to make yourself to face ...

There are quite a lot of factors to try and pinpoint here. I would say that it's creative repression - your brain wants to release creative output, but you're being halted from it somehow. Not being able to express yourself will hit at your identity. Like a caged dog, you start by becoming restless, but eventually become demotivated and depressed after ...