Some friends complained about the increasingly long working hours. Not just go home tonight, but also almost never enjoy a weekend at home. Reasons that have been increasingly ensnare competition and the need to develop, making the working principle of 24 / 7 can be rationally acceptable, but the fact remains no relief. The existence of a cell phone, BlackBerry, computer tablets, and super light laptop, it seemed to simplify our lives, but at the same time make their task as "sticky" with us, come with us wherever we go. There is a new trend experienced by many people, where individuals seemed addicted to e-mail, check incoming messages at any time, and even pursued a job since breakfast.
"The Long Hours Culture" in many successful companies have become a trend. In fact it is used as a performance measure whether or not an individual. A friend said to say with pride: "We must be ready to be called back to office, despite being at home." There are many reasons behind this hectic life, for example, bosses who do not pay attention, too many job demands, or a pity to miss the opportunity. Whatever reason, the ritual of this kind has been made is not perfect relaxation. When his chance there, might be accompanied by more individual guilt and stress. guilty feeling because of the work piling up and not finished, mixed with guilt because they feel unable to manage personal life.
We must wonder, is it really effective and produktifkah work full 12 hours a day or even more? We know that the benefits of flexible working with all kinds of technological support is increasing productivity. But is not happiness because it can effectively manage the responsibilities of work and personal life also determines productivity ourselves?
The question is: how do we berstrategi and keep ourselves in order to divide the timing in which we need to be physically present or not? We also need to enter your personal life agenda on the sidelines of the agenda of work that had been following us both physically and psychologically. This is a new challenge working world today who do not face 10 years ago. This view of the hard work it feels needs to be revisited, either by companies or individuals own.
Humans are not machines
We are a knowledge worker "is sometimes forgotten and equate ourselves with the computer. Do not we often feel increasingly high speed, the longer working hours and the ability to do several tasks at once makes us feel better. The important thing to remember is we humans live according to certain rhythms. The heart beat, muscles contract and relax. Surely we can function optimally if we use the optimal energy and time to refresh it. That's why most of the light-minded individuals in the morning, or after a nap. Imagine what happens when an athlete to sprint continuously without restoration of energy. The human brain also has similarities with the performance of the athlete's body. That is, if the individual does not regulate its energy, work continues without interruption throughout the day, he would produce less than people with the same talent that is able to regulate its energy.
For optimal performance we should not ignore that we need to regulate our lives for the ritual on the sidelines of everyday life, we can refresh our energy sources.Physically we need fitness, adequate sleep, nutrition, and rest periods.Emotionally, we also need to turn the positive emotions in positive ways to communicate with those around us. Mentally we need to consider the power of focus and work to balance the left and right brain hemisphere, so that creativity awakened. While spiritually we still need to keep understanding the meaning, objectives and purpose of our work.
The challenge is that many individuals who believe that setting a task is not determined by the individual alone but by superiors. We need to rethink it seems, is it true that as a subordinate we can not determine the deadlines and the rhythm of our work? Is fully of energy and the division of tasks strongly regulated by outsiders and can not be done independently? Feelings have no control over themselves and it is our time really is a frequent source of stress and guilt. In a competitive and challenging life, individuals also need to be convinced that he was the manager of energy himself. The right mindset will give energy for us to set priorities, manage personal machine, and take full responsibility for the productivity of our self.
Know yourself, manage the work situation
Seasoned management expert Peter Drucker said: "The toughest jobs for knowledge workers is defining the work." A century ago, people not familiar with business services. At that time, work means "make, move, and assemble the goods. Over time you work, more goods are produced. At that time a worker does not require analysis, creativity, and decision making. It's very different working conditions now, right?
Creativity that we constantly hone can make us work in a shorter time with higher productivity. When we understand the rhythm of your body and know when our energy at the top, the machine our body can more efficiently optimized. By writing all the commitments, duties and goals as he adjusts to the strength of our energy, we should be addressing the many tasks without the need to feel miserable and burdened jobs. Indeed the work can be done with such fun game because we did not react to the situation is primitive.
Research shows, many people have gadgets but actually very little sophistication utilized to assist the work. Use of technology as a work tool, such as noting the agenda, determine priorities, using automatic reminders, create formulas and standard templates can not only cut into work time in half, but also at the same time could double the quality and quantity of our work. Working 24 / 7 may not be able to avoid, but still only human who became the director, and not the victim of technology. We are the ones who need to manage "the strategic value of clear space" in the brain and ourselves.
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