There is a lot of preconception that working overtime is something extremely negative.
But have you given the change to the other way of thinking?
Overtime does not have to be bad if the employee desires it and if the business adequately compensates them for the work.
It’s true. People usually do it because they have to.
Due to poor time management, unrealistic expectations, or workforce deficit. But it can also be different.
People are choosing to do it to gain flexibility or to pump up their income. Therefore, if the overtime is not imposed by the employer abusively, it can turn into a win-win situation.
Stay away from anything that makes time work against you .
The “sweet spot” for optimum productivity is 40 hours a week.
You might think you are getting more done by working longer, but in fact every hour you put in over 40 hours a week is making you less productive, both in the short and long term.
When you live by a calendar, it’s no big surprise that your relationship with time can get a little complicated.
Time is a limited resource, after all, and neatly dividing the months, weeks, and days into work, time with friends, and other commitments can help you make the most of it.
How often do you feel anxiety over time?
Do you feel pressured and rushed, anxious because there’s never enough time or because time seems to be flying by too quickly?
Time and anxiety are cruel partners, getting in your head and causing worry, even panic. Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. We want extra time, and when we feel it slipping, we become anxious.
But looking at a filled planner can leave you with the sense that you just don’t have enough time to get everything done.
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Thank you ….The pressure to make it to every event on time can lead to time anxiety, which refers to ongoing feelings of uneasiness and even dread around the passage of time.
What it looks like
Time anxiety can show up in a number of ways.
You worry about lateness
Time anxiety can lead to a preoccupation with being late.
It’s natural to want to arrive on time, since tardiness can have a negative impact on your success at school or work. But stress over potential lateness can leave you constantly on edge.
You might spend a lot of time checking clocks or planning out the best route to your next destination.
This might offer some relief, but at a cost: It distracts you and affects your ability to concentrate on what you’re currently doing.
Time anxiety can also affect your mood. If you do show up a few minutes late, you might feel irritated or angry, even when your lateness doesn’t matter all that much.
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You feel a need to rush
Time anxiety can provoke a desire to rush from one place to the next, often without reason.
If you’ve ever slept longer than intended on a day off, you might have some familiarity with this feeling.
When you realize the time, you bolt out of bed, heart pounding, already stressing about lost time and wondering how to catch up — never mind that you don’t actually have to do anything.
You feel uneasy when you don’t get around to everything you had planned to
You could also notice time anxiety showing up in your goals for yourself.
Think back to your last vacation or weekend.
You probably felt excited on the days leading up to that period of free time, right?
Maybe you made a list of a few tasks to handle at home, or enjoyable activities you were looking forward to.
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Once vacation began, anxiety hit. You felt the clock ticking off the hours until you had to get back to work or college, and every moment you spent not tackling your list of plans felt wasted.
Once back home, you don’t even feel satisfied with the things you did manage to do, because there was still so much else you could’ve done.
If your time anxiety relates to big-picture concerns, you might feel like you’ve missed the turnoff for certain paths.
If you haven’t successfully achieved certain milestones that you expected to reach by your current age — like marriage, world travel, or a certain career move — you might begin worrying you’ll never catch up.
The real kicker?
This fixation on the passage of time can overwhelm you to the point that you fail to see ways you could actually achieve these goals.
We all have days or periods in our life when the going gets a bit tough.
One problem arises after another, leaving you feeling like the world is against you. You try to stay on top of things but it feels like the harder you try, the worse things go, and the problems just keep on piling up.
You start to worry more and more, so much so that you start to struggle to sleep.
Now, you’re not only dealing with a pile of problems but also exhaustion from sleep deprivation.
This doesn’t help you feel any calmer and your good old symptoms of anxiety start to creep in, bit by bit. Then you start to worry about your growing anxiety leading to panic attacks, so much so that you almost fabricate one.
It’s not easy when you get into a spiral like this, and it most certainly doesn’t help you feel like the world is on your side.
But it is. And in order for you to believe that again, you need to take it one tiny step at a time to get back in control of your thoughts and emotions.
While anxiety has a lot of physical symptoms, most people are intimately familiar with anxiety-provoking thoughts. These are thoughts and fears that you have that create more anxiety.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is actually characterized specifically by recurring thoughts that you can’t seem to stop, but all forms of anxiety – including generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder.
The reason this happens is based on a psychological principle known as thought suppression.
Thought suppression is a psychological phenomenon that states that when you try to avoid having a thought, you actually have the thought more often than if you never bothered trying to avoid it at all.
The reason this occurs is not entirely clear. Most likely it has something to do with one of the following:
Memory, it may work extremely hard to force you to keep things on your mind, no matter how much you don’t want them, so it tries as hard as it can to make sure you don’t forget.
One of the greatest mistakes people make is trying to validate their fears. This is especially common with those that have anxiety over their health.
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