I am catching up with posting online my articles.
This is the continuation of the previous article:
MY RELATIONSHIP WITH WORK AND REST - PART 1
MY RELATIONSHIP WITH WORK AND REST - PART 2
Ok... so I have set today the limits in regards to how much I can work ( my daily job ) and now I need to keep up it with. As I said I know that there will be times when I will cross the limit by I will try to reduce these instances as much as possible. And I know that in the long run I will be able to get much further ahead.
2. The next important point is my work with the computer as this is - kind of - my another full time job ( 30 - 50 hours per week ) although I do not earn money from it.
- Thus here is the point where I make the mistake of taking extra responsibilities on myself without assessing whether I can actually do them before completing other jobs. And thus here I am left with few jobs ( responsibilities ) which wait in the queue for weeks and even months to be completed creating unnecessary stress within my life as I continuously think about them.
- Another element within this point is that I do not set myself limits of how much I can/should actually work ( maintaining healthy limits ) and I end up working till late at night and going very tired and exhausted to bed. And I have already noticed that the rest at night is much better if I go to bed before I crossing the "critical point of exhaustion". Thus I should - again - set myself daily and weekly limits of how much I am allowed to work on the computer. Then I should avoid working until late at night and avoid crossing the point of exhaustion.
- Another element is the desire to finish the whole project as soon as possible ignoring healthy limits. Quite often when I work with the computer on certain projects I want to finish them as early as possible. And thus instead of stopping, I continue to work although I am exhausted and so I create for myself unnecessary consequences for the next day - tiredness, lesser effectiveness etc. You'll see... this approach creates a lot of turbulences and negative consequences and in the long run I am going forward at much slower pace as if I was keeping myself steady and maintaining discipline of "healthy limits". And thus all I need to do is to keep the discipline and not to allow the desire to finish the whole project as soon as possible.
To be continued