Personal Development

Burnout Recovery & Prevention Protocol

Assess your burnout level and get a personalized recovery plan with boundary-setting scripts, energy management, and sustainable work habits.

By The Prompt Black Magic Team

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.

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