Beating Burnout, Finding Balance: Mindful Lessons for a Meaningful Life will give you the tools and techniques to claim balance, prevent the onset of burnout, and focus on your health and wellbeing. Photo: Supplied.
As the title suggests, Beating Burnout, Finding Balance: Mindful Lessons for a Meaningful Life will do much more than help you beat burnout and find balance in your life. Mindfulness and high-performance coach Melo Calarco shares his secrets to flourishing as a high achiever and an effective leader through proven simple techniques that have had positive outcomes.
You can farewell fatigue by discovering simple practices that will help you create a healthy mindset, boost your wellbeing and prevent feeling overwhelmed. Actually, you will rediscover the energy you need to thrive.
We are all familiar with never-ending to-do lists, constant deadlines, intense workloads and the guilty feeling you’re not doing enough. Do these routines apply to you? If so, it’s time to take a step back and find a better balance for your work and life.
Beating Burnout, Finding Balance is an international winner, having taken out the self-help category in the Wellbeing and Work-Life Balance Book 2023 Goody Business Book Awards.
Calarco says that regardless of whether you have experienced a partial or full burnout, are just feeling a bit tired and unmotivated or you are looking to make improvements towards an abundant, meaningful life, Beating Burnout, Finding Balance can give you the tools and capacity to claim balance and prevent the onset of burnout.
“In my work as a mindfulness and high-performance coach, I have noticed a considerable increase in the rate of burnout over the past few years,” Calarco writes.
“I’m passionate about making a difference because burnout is continually on the rise globally, with the unrelenting pace of the modern world and the 2020 pandemic having made a significant impact.”
After having supported more than 75,000 people globally through his corporate seminars and workshops, Calarco felt he not only wanted to help further, to write this book to support more people, but he also needed to write it.
He combines science, practical knowledge and mindfulness know-how with incredible life lessons he has learned as he cycled and trekked around the world.
“It will give you practical, implementable tools and techniques to prevent burnout, manage it or recover from it. You do not need to be experiencing burnout to benefit from this book as each chapter also shares a valuable life lesson to help you operate at your best every day and to live your best life!
“Putting together a toolkit of preventative strategies to manage stress, build resilience and maintain wellbeing is far better than experiencing full burnout and then seeking the road to recovery.
“My hope is that within these pages you will find inspirational stories, interesting concepts and some mindful practices and practical tips that you can easily implement to prevent burnout, find balance and live a healthy, meaningful life. The idea then is for you to adopt some of the simple techniques and incorporate them into your lifestyle to create a positive compounding effect, improve your overall wellbeing and find balance.”
The book’s three main takeaways are:
• The importance of self-awareness, self-regulation and self-care to prevent burnout.
• How to manage stress and overwhelm while thriving as a high performer.
• The benefit of living more mindfully and meaningfully.
Beating Burnout, Finding Balance does not outline details about what burnout is or its historical context; nor is it an in-depth analysis on mindfulness and the clinical research associated with it. Instead, Calarco prefers to spend time focusing on tangible ways of preventing burnout and introducing mindfulness into your daily life to find balance.
It is one thing to learn about these concepts theoretically; it’s another to actually practise them so you can feel the benefits for yourself. Many of the stories shared are based on his personal experiences and lessons learned from cycling, trekking and travelling around the world on his mountain bike. It’s also about tried-and-tested simple methods that have had affirmative results.
Calarco has worked for more than 25 years as a mindfulness and high-performance coach. While researching this book, he interviewed close to 200 people, and their “unique insights and perspectives have been a valuable contribution”.
Through inspirational stories and proven skills, from mountaintop monasteries to executive boardrooms, Beating Burnout, Finding Balance gives you the tools to achieve your goals and live life to the fullest – expressively and consciously!
Beating Burnout, Finding Balance, by Melo Calarco, Wiley, $29.95
