Do great work, without torching your energy.
If your days are a blur of meetings, messages, and late-night “catch-up,” you don’t need more willpower. You need a humane operating system. In How to Avoid Burnout While Staying Productive, Ava Kingsley, productivity coach and creator of Calm Productivity™ gives you a practical, evidence-aware playbook to protect your energy and ship meaningful work, sustainably.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

• Spot early warning signs before a busy season becomes a burnout spiral.
• Design weekly time budgets, deep-work guardrails, and 25/50-minute meeting defaults.
• Use comms windows and VIP rules so messages stop owning your day.
• Run workload triage (Delete, Delegate, Defer, Do) and right-size with Must/Should/Could.
• Replace perfectionism with acceptance criteria and MVP passes that ship.
• Align work with energy peaks/troughs; use real breaks (breath • light • movement • water).
• Build recovery-friendly workspaces and relationships that buffer stress.
• Switch to Crisis Mode (Minimum Viable Day + time caps) when life explodes.
• Track only what matters, Energy, Stress, Focus Blocks—to prune, not punish.
• Re-enter after a near-burnout with capacity caps, small wins, and a new identity: I protect my energy to protect my results.

You’ll get scripts, checklists, templates, and mini cases you can run today: boundary scripts that don’t burn bridges, async one-pagers that replace status meetings, meeting purpose tests, triage sweeps, a 28-day implementation plan, and a five-minute weekly dashboard that keeps drift from returning.

This is productivity with kind discipline: short paragraphs, concrete examples, and “Do This Next” boxes at the end of each chapter. No shaming. No heroics. Just systems that make great work feel doable again.

Educational note: This book offers general educational information, not medical advice. If you have health concerns, consult a qualified professional.