By Theresa M. Robinson
O-Syndrome: When Work is 24/7 and You’re Not
Non-Fiction Book
Achieve Work-Life Balance with this shake-you-up, get-you-grounded, ignite-your-fighting-spirit guide to overcoming O-Syndrome. If you’re overworked, overstressed, overburdened, overloaded, overcommitted, over-obligated, overtired, overwhelmed, overextended, overscheduled, and just plain over it, you are very likely suffering from O-Syndrome—today’s 24/7 workplace equivalent of the elephant in the room.
You are not alone…
Book Description
What do you really need and want for a satisfying and fulfilling life?
By asking this and other tough but necessary questions, coach, facilitator and keynote speaker Theresa M. Robinson highlights the need to re-establish clear values and priorities and to set boundaries in our work lives. Using powerful and honest illustrations and examples from her own life and the lives of working professionals from a myriad of backgrounds, Theresa leads us to examine the impact of O-syndrome on our spirits, our health, and our families, and then walks us through designing our own personalized values-based strategies. A more abundant life can be yours with the help of this book—will you take it?
O-Syndrome: The Modern-day Phenomenon
Do any of us even remember when our lives became so busy that we had to strategize what to cut in order to fit in all the to-do’s? Sleep is not the only area to be trimmed for the sake of work. Because work comes with its own set of deliverables and accountability methods, it systematically began to devour much of our time. We started developing the modern-day phenomenon, O-Syndrome: over-worked, overstressed, overburdened, overloaded, overcommitted, overobligated, overtired, overwhelmed, overextended, overscheduled, and just plain over it!
O-Syndrome Checklist
Which aspects of O-Syndrome have you experienced within the past six months?
- Overworked—juggling multiple balls in the air for ten hours or more daily
- Overstressed—feeling that one or more balls is in danger of falling and doing everything possible to prevent it while still maintaining all other balls in the air
- Overburdened—still keeping multiple balls in the air even though they have increased in size and weight
- Overloaded—taking on one or more additional balls while still keeping all balls in the air
- Overcommitted—helping others keep their multiple balls in the air while maintaining your own multiple balls in the air
- Overobligated—being available no matter the time or day to help others keep their multiple balls in the air while maintaining your own multiple balls in the air
- Overtired—caring for your multiple balls has left you with little to no time to care for yourself and little leftover energy to engage with loved ones and friends
- Overwhelmed—thinking constantly about your present and future balls, the weight of your multiple balls, and the strength and skill required to maintain your multiple balls in the air
- Overextended—having only two hands to keep your multiple balls in the air when more hands and longer arms are clearly required
- Overscheduled—blocking off meeting and teleconference times on your calendar even across multiple time zones in order to strategize about collective balls, troubleshoot collective balls, plan for bigger balls, etc.
- Over it!—with fatalistic resignation, you go through the motions of keeping your multiple balls in the air.
Warning. The journey on which this book takes you will not be easy. It requires a tremendous amount of courage. What the world values and defines as success can exert great pressure on your life. But you know this already. This book invites you, challenges you, and even dares you to determine success for your life. To define and articulate what you really want for your life and how to have it on your own terms. The stakes are high. If you define it wrong, you’ll get it wrong. This is worth repeating. If you define it wrong, you’ll get it wrong. Are you ready? Let’s get started. Take a deep cleansing breath. Let’s put you on the path to getting your life back!
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Book Reviews
O-Syndrome: When Work is 24/7 and You’re Not
How to get more out of life
Sometimes our situation at work tends to be of our own making. We create these unimaginable scenarios of stressful work plans and want our management and directors to straighten things out for us. Not knowing that we can really achieve both; be creative and still have time to do things at home, go out, have fun, enjoy with the kids, gaming, wonderful hours of sleep. This book teaches you how to maximize your time and be yourself. The book’s interior design is well planned and thought out with a simply beautiful cover. Its message is clearly spelt out on its pages with simple English that make for an enjoyable read. The author has written a book designed for the ever-busy business man and woman, who seems to have time for only work schedules and more work schedules. This book will open up life as it should be for us, helping us to establish that simple rhythm that makes us get more, and do more, out of life.
A Must Read for the busy professional!!!
It’s a rare occasion to read a book that not only captures your attention from the very beginning but also presents life-changing principles that impact you both professionally and personally
Theresa has done amazing job not only helping us to understand the challenges that can come with seeking to balance the demands of work and life but captures some life changing principles that I will carry with me for the rest of my career and life. I highly recommend not only to individuals but also to groups, corporations and anyone truly interested in investing in people!
Digesting this book is easy but implementing it may be difficult
This well done book is for the person who is over extending themselves. While it is aimed at peoplle in the work force those of us in other facets of life can benefit from reading this as well. I am a mother of four boys and appreciated this book. As you read this you will find yourself examining your life and being convicted of how you have arranged your priorities. This book will get you set right again and out of your over stressed mode. This book, even though it takes you through a variety of challenges, is an enjoyable read. While the author expresses some tough examintation of your life she does not talk down to you. Digesting this book is easy but implementing it may be difficult. I encourage you to read this and see if you need to reevaluate how you are doing things. Is your life ruling you?