Proven Micro-Strategies for Professionals to Diminish Burnout

The season may shift, but exhaustion doesn’t vanish with the calendar.

When I was a classroom teacher, I would collapse into summer—sometimes sleeping nearly a week straight just to feel like myself again. As a school administrator, I didn’t have that luxury. The end of the year wasn’t a finish line—it was a pivot point into summer programs, strategic planning, and staff management.

Now, in my quality of life and burnout preventi...