Reset, Not Resign is a practical e-book and toolkit for exhausted professionals and the managers who support them. Track your energy, make your workload visible, have the conversation, and rebuild recovery into every day.
Reset, Not Resign · Bodhih Pro Kits · 07 by Bodhih Training, trainers to 2,000+ companies since 2008.
Recovering from burnout means fixing two things: the work conditions that drained you and the daily recovery you have lost. Reset, Not Resign by Bodhih Training gives you a step-by-step method: track energy, find the mismatch, make your workload visible, talk to your manager, set boundaries and recover daily, with ready-made tools.
Want the full free guide first? Read How to Recover From Burnout at Work: A Practical 7-Step Guide.
You rest, you sleep in, and by Tuesday you are flat again. Sunday evenings come with a knot in your stomach. You know something is off but not what to do about it.
Meditation apps and wellness webinars are fine, but they do not touch the real causes: too much work, unclear roles, unfair decisions or a clash with your values. You need a way to find and fix the source.
You have drafted the email to your manager four times. You worry they will think you cannot cope. So you say nothing, and the load keeps growing.
You are browsing job sites before you open your inbox. Leaving might be right, or it might take the problem with you. You want to decide clearly, not in a moment of exhaustion.
Imagine a Monday six weeks from now. You open the Energy and Recovery Tracker and notice the line on the dashboard has been climbing for three weeks. The Weekly view says Green. You remember when it said Red five weeks in a row, and how strange it felt to see your exhaustion in coloured cells.
As you look back, you can see what changed. You mapped your workload and found you were carrying 52 hours of commitments against a 40-hour week. You took that number into a calm, prepared conversation using the PLAN method and the scripts in the Workload Conversation Planner. Two projects moved. One old report stopped. Nobody thought less of you; your manager wished you had said something sooner.
Your evenings feel different too. Your shutdown ritual takes three minutes. Email is off your phone after eight. There is a pottery class on Saturdays that you look forward to all week. When you notice an amber week, you know exactly what to do, because you wrote your relapse plan on a sticky note.
And if you do decide to move on, you will leave rested, with a plan and references, not because you could not face another Monday. Whether you start with the Burnout Check-in tonight or the tracker tomorrow evening, the first step takes about ten minutes.
The e-book shows you how. The tools make it happen. Here is exactly what you download.
The guide: methods, worked examples, scripts and exercises
A fillable three-page reflection on the three dimensions of burnout, the six areas of worklife and your warning signs. Not a diagnostic test.
Rate energy, sleep, calm and detachment daily; get weekly averages, low-day flags, a drains log and a live trend chart.
Map every commitment and its weekly hours, calculate your overload number, choose what to stop or hand back, and set boundaries that hold.
A fillable four-week plan: notice, see, talk, sustain. Weekly actions, daily minimums, a recovery mix and space to reflect.
Prepare a calm, evidence-based workload conversation with your manager using the PLAN method, plus 16 ready-to-use negotiation scripts.
A 20-minute monthly check-in script, a question bank across the six areas of worklife, warning signs, what to say and not say, signposting and team-level prevention actions.
Log monthly 1-5 pulse ratings per team member, auto-flag who needs a check-in, and track team trends by month.
A two-page menu of quick resets by situation and time available, from 60-second breathers to 10-minute recovery breaks.
A one-page card: green, amber and red signs, what to do at each level, who to contact and crisis helplines in key countries.
Import into Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar: one short, specific action a day for four weeks, matched to the book and tools.
36 recovery activities tagged by minutes, type, place and when they help. Import into Sheets, Excel, Notion or Trello.
Each chapter opens with a real situation, gives you a method and ends with something to do today, using the tools in your kit.
Why burnout is usually a mismatch you can work on, and how to use the kit.
The WHO's ICD-11 description, the three dimensions from Christina Maslach's research, and how burnout differs from stress and depression.
The green-amber-red drift, signs in body, mind, feelings and behaviour, and why trends beat snapshots.
Workload, control, reward, community, fairness and values: find the mismatch before choosing the fix.
Map every commitment, calculate your overload number and test every new request.
Detachment, relaxation, mastery and control, the basics of sleep and movement, and micro-breaks.
Time, channel and scope boundaries, how to announce them and a shutdown ritual that works.
The PLAN method, an evidence-based opening and scripts for the moments that usually go wrong.
A values check and a clear way to decide between resetting and leaving well.
Monthly wellbeing check-ins, team pulse tracking and team-level fixes for workload and fairness.
When to see a doctor, how an EAP helps, and a relapse plan to catch the next drift early.
Bringing it together: notice early, fix the source, recover daily and choose your future from clarity.
Four weeks: notice, see, talk, sustain.
Starting points for support at work and crisis helplines in key countries.
Every outcome is practised with a worked example and a tool, not just described.
People who measure before and after improve faster and can show it. AssessAll, our sister assessment platform, has AI-graded assessments that pair with this kit. Take one now, work through the kit, then re-take it.
Ahmed, a project director in Dubai, took a two-week holiday to recover from a brutal quarter. He spent the first four days checking email "just to stay on top of things," the middle week feeling slightly better, and the last three days dreading his return. Within a fortnight of being back he felt exactly as he had before he left. Holidays matter, but recovery isn't something you can save up for once a year. It works more like breathing than like a savings account: it needs to happen daily, in small amounts, or the system starts to fail. Recovery is the process by which the energy and resources you spend at work get replenished. Researchers Sabine Sonnentag and Charlotte Fritz described four kinds of experience that help people recover from work, and they remain a practical framework
| Free templates and typical advice | This kit | |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Generic self-care tips: sleep more, try meditation | Finds the real source across six areas of worklife, then fixes conditions and recovery together |
| Tracking | A mood app that shows daily ups and downs | A spreadsheet that turns four daily ratings into weekly averages, Green/Amber/Red status and a trend line you own |
| Talking to your manager | Be honest and ask for help | The PLAN method, an evidence table, 16 scripts and replies to common pushback |
| For managers | Wellness webinars and posters | A 20-minute check-in script, question bank, pulse workbook and team-level prevention actions |
| The resign question | Follow your gut or 'quit quietly' | A decision path that checks whether the mismatch is fixable, and how to leave well if not |
| Safety | Rarely addressed | Clear guidance on when to see a doctor, how EAPs work and where to find crisis support |
Bodhih Training has designed and delivered corporate programmes since 2008. Bodhih Pro Kits package what works in those workshops into a guide plus the exact tools we use, so you can apply it the same day without a facilitator in the room.
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Your download page opens at once, with every file and a one-click ZIP. A permanent link lands in your inbox too.
Start with the quick-start chapter, then the main spreadsheet or planner. Most buyers use something from the kit the same day.
You do not have to fix everything at once. Download the kit, open the Burnout Check-in and notice how much clearer things feel when you can see them on the page. Whether you begin with the check-in tonight or the tracker tomorrow evening, you will be taking the first real step back to yourself.
Personal licence for the buyer's own use (and use with your own team or clients where the kit says so). Please don't share or resell the files. Team and company licences: solutions@bodhih.com.
Emotional intelligence and resilience at work.
Certification pathways for working professionals.
250+ AI-graded assessments to measure skills and earn verified credentials.
Individual development plans that start from evidence and stay yours.
Run this topic as a live workshop for your team, in person or online.
Book a vetted coach for career, leadership or communication. Pay per session.
Certification pathways in Applied AI, Workplace English and management.
Early signs are usually small: weekends that no longer refill you, Sunday-evening dread, irritability, dropping hobbies, working through breaks and checking email in bed. The WHO describes three dimensions: exhaustion, mental distance or cynicism about the job, and reduced professional efficacy. The pattern over weeks matters more than any single bad day.
It varies a lot from person to person and depends on how long the strain has lasted and whether the causes at work change. Many people notice small improvements within a few weeks of consistent recovery habits and workload changes, while deeper recovery can take months. The tracker in this kit helps you see real progress rather than guessing.
No. The Burnout Check-in is a self-reflection tool to help you notice patterns and choose a starting point. It is not a diagnostic test, and the kit is educational content, not medical advice. If low mood lasts more than two weeks or spreads beyond work, please talk to a doctor.
Lead with facts and options rather than labels. The PLAN method in Chapter 7 helps you describe your workload in hours, link it to the impact on the work, ask for something specific and offer two or three options. The Workload Conversation Planner includes an opening script, 16 negotiation scripts and a follow-up email.
Sometimes leaving is right, but exhausted brains are poor at big decisions. Chapter 8 gives you a decision path: have you raised it clearly, and is the mismatch fixable where you are? If the answer points to leaving, plan it so you leave rested and with options.
Yes. Chapter 9, the Manager's Team Wellbeing Check-in Guide and the Team Wellbeing Pulse workbook are written for people managers. The personal licence covers your own use and use with your own team. For company-wide distribution, contact solutions@bodhih.com about a team or company licence.
Alongside the Burnout Check-in, you can take AssessAll's Resilience and Stress Management assessment, the Behaviour Under Pressure Assessment, or the Work Environment and Job Demands Assessment to get an evidence-based baseline. Repeat after a few months to see what has changed.
Once you know your priorities, Jobulary can help you turn them into an individual development plan that stays yours. Its guide on using the fresh-start effect to reset a goal pairs well with the 28-day plan and the relapse plan in Chapter 10.
Yes. The workbooks are standard XLSX files with ordinary formulas, dropdowns and colour scales, so they open in Excel, Google Sheets and most other spreadsheet apps. The fillable PDFs work in Acrobat Reader and annotation apps such as GoodNotes.
Because these are digital files, kits are non-refundable once downloaded. We will fix or refund if a file is corrupted and we cannot fix it within 3 working days, if you were charged twice, or if delivery fails.
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Because it is a digital download, kits are not refundable once downloaded. We always refund a duplicate charge or a failed delivery, and if a file is corrupted and we cannot fix it within 3 working days. Full terms: bodhih.org/refunds.
Yes. Team and company licences, and workshops on this topic run by Bodhih Training, are available. Write to solutions@bodhih.com or call +91 99000 11601.
