Stress, burnout, and stepping back

[DanKein]

OK, there are a lot of great responses to this thread about how to manage your teams time and expectations during a build season. Big Al's advice about prioritizing your school work should be your number 1.

What I see would help you, would come from a deeper reflection on you. Why do you mentor? Who do you mentor for? Is what you are doing mentoring? What are your short term and long term life goals? How does mentoring a FIRST team fit within those goals. I'm sure that there are more questions along this line, that you can form to help you reflect.

I think you need to be spending some time establishing your personal priorities / goals, etc.

Your attribute of personal sacrifice is very noble, but FIRST needs YOU to be successful first.