Work to live, don't live to work....

Have you ever done something as fast and quickly as possible just to get it over with? You might be so tired and overworked that you don't really care to put in a lot of effort to complete a task to the best of your ability. 

Life is so rushed these days and we all have long lists of things we have to do on a specific day.  It might even feel as if something is chasing us to work at a certain tempo, and if we don't finish the work in time something terrible is going to happen.  

We might lose an important client or even worse, we might lose our jobs!

In reality, if you think about it, it is quite a ridiculous thought. Losing your job because you don't finish something on time????

We all get tired at some point in life.  This racing through life definitely affects our health and well-being and we are so invested in our jobs that we forget to live a life.  

We are in such a situation where we perform at work but we forget to perform at home where it really matters.  We give everything to our jobs, but the people who really matter stay behind.  

We all want to be successful, but no one is perfect and mistakes happen. Is it really worth rushing and working so hard that we forget about the thing that is most important to us? 

When I have a discussion about careers in my class, I always tell the kids, no matter what you do, you have to enjoy your job, and you only need enough money to survive till the next month.  

Jobs cannot provide happiness, family does.  We don't all have to be rich to be happy in life, in fact, many poor people are very happy.   

Life doesn't have to be so rushed.  You need to take time for yourself every day to just be yourself.  If you don't reach your goal today, what about tomorrow? The goal is not going to disappear, it might just be fulfilled the next day instead of today.  You might even enjoy the end result more if you are not dead tired.  

Time is precious and life is short.  All work and no play make Jack a dull boy...... 

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People most definitely place a lot of pressure on themselves, stress kills!

Fast paced living, well planned out to achieve enough in life to be comfortable and happy is all we need. Sadly most tend to want more slowly dragged into the hamster wheel neglecting those close to them or themselves.

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