5 tips to avoid burnout at work

These tips from successful people on how to avoid burnout at work will help you increase the likelihood of achieving your promotion goals next year.

Setting ambitious goals for your career next year can lead to burnout. According to CNBC, in a recent survey of American adults who reported symptoms of stress, 25% said they were physically and mentally exhausted. Meanwhile, 26% said they felt they were achieving less than they should.

Therefore, you can refer to the following experiences from famous successful people, to both advance in your career and balance your life.

Jeff Bezos

The Amazon founder is extremely strict about work-life balance. In addition to saying no to morning meetings, he only spends six hours a year meeting with Amazon investors. His meetings are also very business-oriented and only held when absolutely necessary, following the 'two pizza rule'. This means never holding a meeting if there are not enough people to feed two pizzas.

The billionaire also dislikes multitasking. He focuses on one thing at a time. “I don’t like multitasking. When I read my email, I just want to read my email,” he told TechCrunch.

Arianna Huffington

Self-made millionaire Arianna Huffington isn't shy about sharing her experiences of 'forgetting to eat and drink' due to work. Two years after founding the Huffington Post, she worked herself to the point of exhaustion and collapsed in her office, fracturing her cheekbone.

“That was really when I started to re-evaluate my life. I, like millions of people around the world, had this delusion of success and ended up burning out,” Arianna said at the iConic conference in New York earlier this year.

She recommends people not to keep their phones in bed, get 7-9 hours of sleep every night, eat breakfast every morning and take short breaks during the workday. With this lifestyle, according to Thrive Global magazine, people can build a close relationship between good health and career success.

Dan Brown

The bestselling author maintains a strict daily routine to maintain a balanced and productive lifestyle. He wakes up at 4am every day. He then makes a smoothie of blueberries, spinach, bananas, coconut water, nuts and beans. He also mixes his coffee with avocado and coconut oil to create a drink that he says enhances “the way the brain absorbs caffeine.”

Surprisingly, he stopped writing at noon every day. During work hours, he set his computer to "freeze" for 60 seconds every hour to relax himself.

Ryan Seacrest

Ryan Seacrest is a famous American television host, radio host and producer. However, this Hollywood businessman has a rule of stopping work at 6:30 pm every day.

He wakes up at 7am and is in the office by 8am. After hosting with Kelly Ripa at 9am, he handles other tasks during the day, including reading emails, attending meetings and checking on the progress of projects he is working on.

Keeping emails short is one of the keys to his balanced day. Unlike people who like to respond to long emails, Ryan Seacrest keeps his responses short. When it matters, he responds by phone. “Emails are two lines. They’re very, very short emails,” he says.

Jason Fried

Jason Fried, CEO of software company Basecamp, is proof that you don’t have to be stressed and exhausted to succeed in tech. He works just 40 hours a week and imposes a 32-hour workweek policy during the summer months. Fried also avoids mandatory meetings at work, saying that any meetings that do happen should be scheduled around everyone’s schedule.

“If you work too hard, you’re going to make mistakes. They’re going to be costly mistakes. If you want people to be productive and not make mistakes, you can’t make them work 60 or 70 hours a week,” he tells CNBC Make It.

According to VNE