Instructions:

Forget about the usual boring self-care plan. Today we are going to create a personal burnout plan instead!

• Take a piece of paper or your calendar, anything you would use to make a weekly plan.
• For each of your tasks throughout the week, add a note/advice to yourself that will surely lead you to burnout! E.g. if you have a meeting on Tuesday, add the note “Make sure you use the meeting to discuss things that could be solved through an email”. If you have a project deadline on Friday, write down “Do not use good time management and leave everything for the last minute”.
• Add any instructions needed to make your life as difficult as you can! E.g. “take on yet another new project” or “say yes to everyone”!
• Add daily anti-self-care tips! E.g. “do not take a shower”, “eat only junk food” or “stay awake scrolling through your social media until very late”!
• Make sure you don’t leave any time and space for things that would be helpful to you, like meeting with friends or getting peer support from coworkers!
• Decorate your personal burnout plan with colourful illustrations, drawings or collage!
• Hang it somewhere where you can easily see it and use it as a humorous example to avoid!

Extra:

Apart from your personal burnout plan, you can work together with your coworkers to collectively create your workplace burnout plan!