Thought for the day twenty four

There could be some instances where we are forced to take up more work than what we can actually complete. The reason could be that the company has taken more projects than it can handle due to the financial binding. The other reason is that our boss is having a higher trust on us that we could finish more things with a small time frame.

When we are in such a situation, we would be taking more work. We would be thinking at the back of our mind that what we are doing is wrong. We should have told that it is too much when we  had a chance. Now we can’t let down the people who trust us.

But there would be some signals that we are biting more than we could chew.

Some of the signs are mentioned below:

We tend to give least priority to the projects which are for our self-development. We overlook this pointedly. Actually this is the easiest thing to do. We could have kept a set of books to read, movies to watch, places to visit personally. We may even have thought that we could make a reading table for ourselves with the carpentry we learned during our college days. All it needs a minor modification. But suddenly we find that we do not have time for any of these things. This should tell us that we are asking ourselves too much. Even if we write down in the ‘Things to do’ list, the personal jobs we want to do, we keep giving it a skip. We feel really repentant that we did not spend much time for our self-development.

We feel tired after a long day and go to sleep after dinner. We promise ourselves that we will compensate during the weekend. But when the weekend arrives, we tend to sleep more. This will skip the writing, reading etc. Though the time spent on reading is quality time, we feel more relaxed by just sleeping. After all the whole of the week we have bitten more than what we can chew.

Probably if we add the fun time also in our time table, it would at least trigger a thought in us that we should have some fun. The fun could be a simple one. Spending time with the kids or sitting under a tree and reading a book.

We will have sleep disorders. If we are too tired, we may not get sleep in the night. This leads to oversleeping in the mornings. This makes things worse by making us late for the office the next morning. So, the previous day’s additional work gets added to the next day’s list. Then again, more time spent, more tired we become, reach home late, have late dinner which is not good for digestion, sleep eludes, we keep waking up during the nights and early morning nap catches us and we are late for work. This is vicious circle which should be avoided at all costs. The cluttered mind may end up this way. So, we need to think for a small time about what has been done that day and what needs to be done the next day.

If we go hungry when we are supposed to eat and skip meals during the stipulated time, we end up in eating at odd times. This leads to overeating or under eating or eating junk food at odd times. We will put on weight. Some times this weight is not possible to reduce. This would show on our health. We have to eat at the proper time and at least during eating we should not work.

We easily get angry when things cannot be got done. We get annoyed if there is no sugar in our coffee. This should tell us that we are stuffing our brain more things that it can take. We get annoyed about even small things. Bad temper is a sure sign that we are taking more responsibility than we can actually take.

Concentration is another good character which gets ‘killed’ when we are overloaded. We lose track of what is urgent and which is important. This means we are feeding our brain with too much of stuff. We should try to focus on one job and complete it, though it is very difficult to do that in this corporate world. We have to try since our health may get deteriorated.

Our memory goes out of order. We tend to forget very small things which are important. We would wonder when our boss asks about a project of the previous week. We end up clueless and scratch our head.

We need to write down everything which we are supposed to remember.

The last resort is to consult a professional psychiatrist and get a possible solution!