What Vanessa Van Edwards has said about Energy management and burnout

Van Edwards argues that burnout and busyness are not markers of success and that people should stop competing over who is busiest.

“Busyness and burnout is not a mark of success. So being burnt out just means you're saying yes to too much, you're doing too much”

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Van Edwards contends that ambivalent relationships drain more energy than either toxic or good ones.

“The relationships that are the most toxic are not the toxic relationships. They're actually the ambivalent relationships”

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Van Edwards recommends taking a break from seeing people one is unsure about to test whether one misses them.

“Those question marks, please stop seeing them. Just for a while. Do you miss them? Is your life different not seeing them?”

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