For workaholics out there!

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

If you are motivated to succeed, I am sure that you work as hard as you can day by day, trying to give 100 % to everything you do. The issue I have about this philosophy, where you give 100 % every day and work until you can't anymore, is that, without time to recover, our bodies slowly break down. Those of you that go to gym will know exactly what I am talking about. If you push yourself every day, working to the max, never taking a day off to rest and recover. You begin to see a gradual decline in your performance.

You appear to be weaker every day, unable to sustain your peak performance. How is that possible, you give your max every day, working as hard as you can and yet you just seem to go backwards?

The simple answer to this very complex question is that our bodies cannot operate at max for prolonged periods, without sufficient time to rest and recover.

The same is true about the way we work every day. You cannot maintain an effort where you work at your max every minute of every day, never allowing yourself time to recover and refresh. Except you give yourself permission to slow down for short periods of rest during the day and you take at least one day off a week, your performance and output will gradually decline. The other will be frowning at this and will be saying things like "Rest should be a necessity and never an objective".

The Blog of Eli

Tuesday, March 27, 2012