Are you the type of person who his always working? Do you feel lost when you are not working or possibly, you don’t know how to relax when you are not working? You are a workaholic. You are overly dedicated to your work and your business.
What are the signs of being a workaholic?
Are the relationships that you make in life strictly related to business or business related ventures? If your personal life is suffering and you have a feeling that something is missing in your life, you need to step back and make more friends that are not business related.
All of your activities are business related. Do you ever do anything that is not business related? For example, perhaps the only reason you stopped at the local bar was to meet an associate to discuss a contract. Or, you were meeting a new client for lunch but you never dine out any other time.
You are working too much and need to change the patterns of your life. If you were to have a devastating problem in life or if you were to lose your job, you would be lost without other friends, family and acquaintances to support you emotionally.
Are you strongly analytic? If you are always focused on a new goal, that you are going to make that big sale, and that nothing else gets in your way about hitting that goal, you are a workaholic. When is the last time you spent time with your family? Did you miss a baseball game this year? Did you see graduation?
Were you there when they went on their first date? Scale back on your goals or give yourself additional time to meet your goals so you can enjoy more of your family at the same time. If sales and business goals are always on your mind you need to learn to be able to clear your mind so your physical health doesn’t suffer.
What are the problems associated with being a workaholic?
When you work too much, your family does not get to see you as much. What is the remedy? Set hours that you are going to work and try as hard as you can to stick to them. If you always have to work late, limit it to six or seven o’clock and then quit at that time no matter what. Your family is important especially if you have young children or if you are newly wed.
When you work too much, your home life changes and your family learns to ‘get along without you’ and you miss out on a lot of things. If you have to work six or seven days a week, take a day off in the middle of the week and just be around the house with your spouse and family as much as possible. While you may not be able to do this every week, at least once a month when you are under the tightest deadlines is important to boost your family life.
If you are a workaholic often you are under stress, constantly and it can be damaging to your health. How can you remedy this? Take a lunch. No matter how busy you are, taking a lunch is going to give your body that few minutes to calm down. If you don’t want to eat lunch, go to the gym, go for a walk – physical exercise of any amount or any type is good for releasing stress.
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