Many hours and years of our lives are devoted to working – on top of work, we juggle our personal lives. It is challenging to ensure work-life balance. This is all the more a challenge if commuting to and from work takes up a portion of our day. With the reality of work taking up a large part of our lives, it is vital that reflect on what sustainable work looks like. It is imperative that we prevent burnout and take time to recover from burnout if we are experiencing burnout.

Have you ever found yourself feeling guilty for getting less done during the day than you have hoped for?

So how do you shift our relationship with work and rest? How do you come back to the truth that we are human BE-ings and not human DO-ings?

Here are some suggestions of ways to deal with guilt when it shows up.