5 Reasons to score on productivity and start living

At work, you spend more time than at home. Relatives remember you only from photographs of five years ago, because there is no time or go on a visit or photographed. Your pages in social networks only motivational quotes about the need to work longer and more productively, because those who do not spend the night in the office, would end up in a shelter for the homeless. Most likely, you're somewhere a wrong turn, and here's why.

1. The future, on which you are working may not come

Of course, you've been reading tips that should be in his youth stickThat retirement does not expect to pay from the state, and ride like cheese in butter: drink cocktails on the seaside and to live in a luxurious mansion in the country.

Look at the statistics on the duration ofLife expectancy at birth Russian life: 66.5 years for men and 77.06 - for women. Find the size of the average salary - 37.7The average monthly nominal wage of employees of the Russian Federation in the economy in 1991-2017gg. thousand rubles.

Now understand how little time you have remains at cocktail parties if you are male. Realize how little chance you have to make a 22-year-old luxury if you are a woman.

The plan can be carried out, if you do not work a lot and earn a lot.

To forever abandon the idea to forget about the present life for a happy old age, ask your grandparents how much time they have lost their life savings. Even if you enter a 146% optimistic electorate, money should be approached from the point of view of the harsh reality: all that you earn can be used against you.

2. Focus should be not weary, and successful

According to polls, the programmers in finding a job in the first place among the selection criteria put
2018 Developer Skills Report an opportunity to strike a balance between work and life. They want to have a flexible schedule options for remote operation and that the company appreciated the quality of work, rather than the time they spent in the office. A programmer can hardly be suspected of a lack of intelligence and analytical skills. And wages have on average higherThan other Russians.

If you are not the first day walking down a slippery trail workaholic, evaluate their achievements. Your name on the Forbes list nameknot that it is already possible to slow down. But the absence of any significant results say the same thing. If from the murderous work seven days a week you have not received a heavy impact, for the sake of what is it?

3. Processing - the cause of diseases

You set a goal and you go to it, agreeing to any processing and coming to the office over the weekend. It should adequately assess how much you actually have to plow and if you soak. Earn rental if desired can be a couple of months, save for an apartment in a good area of ​​Moscow without initial capital - at least 10 years, and this is the optimistic scenario.

If you can predict with certainty what will happen in 10 years, you're probably successful astrologer or fortune teller and rowing money with a shovel. If not, refer to the classics.

John Lennon said, "Life - this is what happens to us while we make plans." And he, by the way, for certain something put off until after 40 years.

But we, unlike Lennon, threatens not Mark David Chapman, and more likelyData on causes of death mortality in the Russian Federation in January - December 2017 death from cardiovascular diseases or nervous system as well as external causes (accidents, suicides, and so on). And the more you work, the more you create all the conditions to replenish the sad statistics.

Workaholism is directly linkedThe Relationships between Workaholism and Symptoms of Psychiatric Disorders: A Large-Scale Cross-Sectional Study with depression and other mental disorders that can lead to suicide. The Japanese, known for their pathological desire for productivity, death from stroke or heart attack in the workplace given a separate name - Karos. You work for a better life and at the same time deprive yourself of that which is already there.

4. Laziness - the engine of progress

Bad news for those who are a month could not find the time to read the text, due to work commitments. Professor of the Department of Management, University of California at Berkeley, said Morten HansenMorten Hansen. Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve MoreThat the best workers combine four qualities that have nothing to do with hard labor seven days a week:

1. They are looking for the simplest and quickest way to solve the problem.
2. Instead of a willingness to take the chief of all the new and new projects, they focus on existing, but to understand them more deeply.
3. They analyze the results and determine their priority to understand what should be given less attention.
4. They are always coming to work with an eye to the future, so that each routine task required less and less effort.

So zeal leads you to success much more slowly than the desire to optimize workflows.

5. Fashion for workaholism is not beneficial to you

Nice, of course, leave the office four hours before it is necessary to return to him, open social networks, and write about it. Let all the classmates know what you are successful. Workaholism is now socially acceptable, and burn at work in the same fashion as hoodies Vetements. If a person has never laid selfie from the office to the output, it is, count, and does not work.

But slow down. Permanent employment does not say anything about your success and relevance. Maybe you just do not have time to do the job for eight hours or combine it with the rate of a night watchman. And even if you really spend every minute on the projects, you still look so strange guy (or girl), with whom it is impossible to communicate.

You are, in general, do not differ from the militant mothers who can speak only about the child. Only instead of the baby you have a job. And if Mom is a justification in the form of changes in hormonal levels, then you have nothing to cover.

It is beneficial to your employer that you work all day and night. And you risk more to lose than to buy.

Mankind has, among other things, decades went to eight-hour working day after the strike, the prison and the revolution to Saturday lie on the couch with the TV series. So do not deny the social achievements and on the weekend, go to the movies, but not to work. And the phone is switched off. It's time to stop benefit and start living.