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Exercise: What Are Your Personal Values?
And why knowing your values is essential to avoiding burnout and living a life you love.
When we are overwhelmed by chronic workplace stress, it can be tempting to quit and head straight into another job.
I totally get this.
When I was in the middle of my burnout, my boss offered to find me an in-house legal role with one of our clients.
I declined.
Not because I wasn’t tempted (I was).
Not because it didn’t make a lot of sense (it did).
But because I knew, intrinsically, that going straight into another job — a different version of the same one I had been doing when I burnt out — would not make me happy.
This decision was essentially me choosing myself, and what matters to me, over external validation for the first time in my career.
And it was terrifying.
Today there are more resources available to lawyers who are looking to leave, or those who are simply looking to live a healthier life as a lawyer.
Back then, I trusted my senses. I knew I needed to do some deeper work on why I had burnt out in the first place to make sure it never happened again.
