Give it time: Avoiding (and healing) burnout

Lessons I've learned from the handy men working on our house.

The past few months we’ve had some work done to our house.
We hired a man to demolish our old loo to install a new one. He reckoned he needed about four days for the whole job, tiling included. But on the second day he wasn’t able to hang our new toilet on the wall, and told us he needed a full day extra. “Of course it won’t cost you extra, you hired me…