Burnout back after just getting better

When recovering from burnout, how do you know when youre ready to go back to work? I obviously went back too soon before, but how do you know? 

This might seem a stupid answer as it seems so strange now to me and has taken a long time to realise. However here's my take on it Lemon slice 

Outlook to doing so is becoming more physically and mentally positive.

The amount of physical and mental effort necessary to exert to sustain dynamic existence in the present is lessened.  Such that one does not feel like ot is a fight to exist so much.

The body feels different in how it moves and I can be appreciated as being a sense of relaxed confidence.  One doesn't have to physically force oneself to move forward.

When seeing the world not looking at it as if behind the line of reality but more in it in a 3 dimensional way.  Not so "locked in".

One has a greater real time awareness of where one is in relationship to the "window of tolerance" to stress and therefore meaningful strategies to remain so can be implemented

When other people are more relaxed in one's company.

best wishes

Are you saying to try to be present in the moment, rather than observing and judging yourself in the moment? If so, I agree.

Trying to just be, without watching so closely and working out what is the right thing to do or say, reduces mental load, because you are reducing masking. Being more relaxed helps.

If the work is solitary, so the problem is the pressure of work, then it may be time pressure that makes it hard and fear of leaving things.

There can be too many requests going round in your head. Making short lists, say of the next 3 things you will do, can help with focus. Stopping notifications to prevent distractions can help. Allowing yourself to not worry about time can help a lot. Things get done when they get done. By stopping the worrying, guilt and feeling pressure I work just as well but more sustainably. Push back on deadlines if they are unreasonable. People are very keen to put deadlined on you, but few other people keep theirs. If things take a bit longer, no one else seems to bothered.

There are three key work skills:

• Being able to say no and push back or set new deadlines
• Not taking responsibility for things that are not in your control. Accountability comes with power. If you are reporting on what others are doing there is no guilt for you if they don't deliver.
• Try not to take everything so personally. Often the problem is the fault of the system, not you. If no one else could have done any better, it is not you. Fix the system.

Are you saying to try to be present in the moment, rather than observing and judging yourself in the moment? If so, I agree.

Trying to just be, without watching so closely and working out what is the right thing to do or say, reduces mental load, because you are reducing masking. Being more relaxed helps.

If the work is solitary, so the problem is the pressure of work, then it may be time pressure that makes it hard and fear of leaving things.

There can be too many requests going round in your head. Making short lists, say of the next 3 things you will do, can help with focus. Stopping notifications to prevent distractions can help. Allowing yourself to not worry about time can help a lot. Things get done when they get done. By stopping the worrying, guilt and feeling pressure I work just as well but more sustainably. Push back on deadlines if they are unreasonable. People are very keen to put deadlined on you, but few other people keep theirs. If things take a bit longer, no one else seems to bothered.

There are three key work skills:

• Being able to say no and push back or set new deadlines
• Not taking responsibility for things that are not in your control. Accountability comes with power. If you are reporting on what others are doing there is no guilt for you if they don't deliver.
• Try not to take everything so personally. Often the problem is the fault of the system, not you. If no one else could have done any better, it is not you. Fix the system.