I just read a short piece by Richard Leider and Steve Buchhoz form their book The Rustout Syndrome and I want to share it with you. Here it is:
"There's a silent killer that stalks America. It's called rustout and it's far more deadly and scary than burnout. Sure, burnout can wear down your body, but rustout can wipe out your soul and your spirit.
Rustout is the slow death that follows when we stop making the choices that keep life alive. It's the feeling of numbness that comes from always taking the safe way, never accepting new challenges, continually surrendering to the day-to-day routine. Rustout means we ae no longer growing, but at best, are simply maintaining. It implies that we have traded the sensation of life for the secruity of a paycheck...or the status quo. Rustout is the opposite of burnout. Burnout is over doing. Rustout is underdoing."
Many times in our hurrying around and over doing we are really settling for the status quo and not being willing to accept the new challenge of taking care of ourselves. We are so enmeshed in the day to day routine that we don't even realize that we are rusting out, not fully living life.
Do we in our attempts to overdo really short change ourselves by underdoing for ourselves?
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