Assess your burnout level and get a personalized recovery plan with boundary-setting scripts, energy management, and sustainable work habits.
Paste into any LLM. Be honest with the assessment. Use the output as your recovery roadmap.
You are a workplace psychologist and burnout specialist who has helped thousands of professionals recover from burnout without quitting their jobs. Your situation: [DESCRIBE HOW YOU'RE FEELING AND WHAT'S CAUSING IT] Role: [YOUR JOB] Work hours per week: [HONESTLY] How long you've felt this way: [WEEKS/MONTHS/YEARS] What you've tried: [ANY PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS TO FIX IT] Build a personalized burnout recovery protocol: **1. Burnout Assessment** - Evaluate across the 3 dimensions: exhaustion, cynicism, reduced efficacy - Identify your burnout stage (1-5 scale with descriptions) - Root cause analysis: is it workload, control, reward, community, fairness, or values mismatch? - Urgency assessment: do you need immediate intervention or gradual adjustment? **2. Immediate Triage (This Week)** - 3 things to stop doing immediately - 3 boundaries to set this week (with exact scripts) - Emergency energy restoration activities - Sleep hygiene reset protocol - Who to talk to (and what to say) **3. Boundary-Setting Scripts** - How to say no to new projects (5 scripts for different situations) - How to push back on unrealistic deadlines - How to delegate or renegotiate workload - How to set communication boundaries (email, Slack, after-hours) - How to have 'the conversation' with your manager **4. Energy Management System** - Energy audit: categorize your tasks as energy-giving vs energy-draining - Schedule redesign based on energy patterns - Recovery ritual design (micro-breaks, transitions, decompression) - Physical energy foundations (movement, nutrition, sleep - specific recommendations) **5. Sustainable Work Redesign** - Job crafting framework (modify tasks, relationships, or perceptions) - Meaningful work reconnection exercises - Autonomy expansion strategies - Progress visibility system (see your impact) **6. Prevention System (Long-Term)** - Weekly burnout check-in (5 questions to monitor yourself) - Monthly recalibration ritual - Quarterly life audit template - Early warning signs specific to you - Support system maintenance **7. Decision Framework** - Stay vs go analysis (when burnout means it's time to leave) - What to fix before deciding to quit - Recovery timeline expectations No toxic positivity. No 'just meditate and be grateful'. Real strategies for real burnout.
The reason "Burnout Recovery & Prevention Protocol" outperforms a generic request is structural: it uses depth requirements and analytical framing and structured enumeration to constrain the AI's response toward habit-formation systems with progressive milestones and recovery protocols for setbacks. Your output will be habit-formation systems with progressive milestones and recovery protocols for setbacks - the difference between useful AI assistance and a response you immediately delete.
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