It Is Really Okay To Take A Break. Take It For Your Mental Health!
We snap when we do not. And we might not come back. So, have the courage to take a break. The journey in life is long, being paranoid with progress can have negative impacts on our mental health.
Many people treat themselves like an orange. If you are aggressive enough wanting to achieve all your goals this month, you won’t want to waste a second. Time is too precious to be wasted. I have to achieve my goals!
I get that, fellas. I do. It is the same for me.
However, we need to weave occasion breaks within the day and throughout the week. Our mind is truly amazing. It allows us to focus and produce great work when we are willing to grind.
It also has an in-built barometer that measures the degree of mental fatigue accumulated over time. Mental fatigue cannot be measured through quantitative analysis. That said, we can feel it.
They behave like the opening and closing balance principle in accounting. We might have a closing balance containing 10 liters (fabricated unit of measure!) of mental fatigue juice when we end our working day.
If we do not sleep enough to purge them out of our bodies via natural biological detox, we will carry over 6 liters in our opening balance for tomorrow.
That is when we will wake up on the wrong side of the bed, or when we start hammering our innocent alarm when it does its job.
As simple as this sounds, the cycle does repeat itself as we accumulate pressure from our daily work and not releasing them before the start of the next day. Our fatigue, just like gingivitis (especially when we do not brush our teeth … erm … seems all too common), builds up, and we cease to function.
This is when we find that we have to push ourselves harder to achieve the same output. Do this, you little cunt. What is the matter with you?
The matter is inadequate breaks. Our mind is like a spring coil. Resistance mounts as incremental compression are applied. Have you seen a spring coil explode?
We do not explode in the same fashion. We deflate like a balloon.
This is the moment when we become emotionally vulnerable. And negative thoughts that were once in passing start to take root.
- Why are we doing this? There is no money in this!
- Why are we developing new products? Our star product works wonders already!
And a string of self-sabotage follows.
We need to know when we scratched the Wall of Fatigue. Do not crash through it. When we are close, pull back immediately.
Because wasting 2 hours in a day is nothing compared to taking 2 months of no-pay leave because we have to recharge.
The sums are simple. And it cannot be clearer.
The premium is in self-care. No one can squeeze our mental juice dry …. Unless we want to.
Take A Break And Think For The Long Term!
Aldric
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