Stop Overloading Yourself!

in #life7 years ago

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We overload our selves with work; We think it will get us closer to our goals, but it gets us further away. There have been numerous studies about how "Workaholics" actually achieve less than someone who isn't a workaholic.
What am I referring to here? BUSY WORK!
Busy work makes us think we are productive; It makes us think we are working hard. But in reality, we are often going in the wrong direction.

It's a waste of time

Sometimes it seems as though we are desperate to dictate every second of our day that we do ridiculous tasks to eat our day away. It's almost like we are afraid to give ourselves that extra hour of free time. Instead, we do busy work, and sometimes mindlessly browse social media to eat away our day. That is why they say that you should always give yourself less time than you need to complete a task because you'll do the task in the same amount of time that you give yourself.

Less Results

I'm sure we've all had those days, Where we have this massive to-do list that doesn't get done at all. But we feel as though we spent our whole day working.
Busy work often gives us fewer results. It's mindless, Tedious tasks that are usually worthless when it comes to our bigger goals in mind.
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Distracting & Stressful

We always want to add more than necessary to our schedule for the day. We then get obsessed and stressed about the small stuff. Which causes us to become even more distracted from what is important. When we finally look at our to-do's with a new set of eyes and start "trimming the fat." We realize that most of the tasks we wanted to do Are pointless and unnecessary.
This is why it's important to keep your to do list at a reasonable length and aim to target the things that are most important.
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Conclusion

Busy work doesn't do a favor for anyone. And when We constantly impose a lot of busy work on ourselves, We have that stressed out, and exhausted feeling that we have when we do work, But we also have no results.


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You've just hit the nail on the head that's exactly how I've been lately. The more I've got to do the less I do and then it makes you feel like crap 💩 time for a rethink. Thanks mike

Exactly! I'm glad it helps :)

Hi Kaylin,

It's my first time reading from you and I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading your thoughts on busy work. I agree that we waste time on pointless things but think as if we have done hard work. As pointed out by you, results are a good measure of seeing how useful our day has been.

I'll add Prato's Principle here which is commonly called the 80/20 Rule. It means that 80 percent of our focus should be on 20 percent tasks of highest importance because they bring 80 % results/value. Rest of the 80 % tasks are pointless or less important and only deserve 20 % of our attention because they are worth only 20 % outcome. We generally do the opposite and you have defined it well in this article.

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This is a sad but true state of affairs these days. People are conditioned for perfomance to such an extent that they are having heart attacks and killing themselves over it. It is just wrong. Life is for living too... not just for striving to reach unattainable performance levels.

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Thanks for sharing, interesting article as always!

Very true! Hard to find a resolution that works in practice...

Just take it easy in life and do nothing .... jk jk lol

nice post

Thanks

Thanks for sharing your ideas! :) It's so true, stress is so bad for your health... everybody should calm down and try to stop getting stressed out in the job for example! Your health is more important than money ...

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