Breaking the Work and Stress Cycle: How Do You Manage Long Hours and Stay Healthy?

Work and Stress Cycle

You hate doing long work hours, which leads to stress, resulting in health-related problems and an inability to work efficiently. This, in turn, causes more stress, creating a cycle that continues endlessly.

Dear Avs, thank you for this quote. Stress can be a good thing; it can motivate, energize, and help us do our best work positively. However, unrelieved work stress can lead to burnout. This is characterized by a lack of energy, emotional exhaustion, job dissatisfaction, negativity, reduced resistance to illnesses, increased work absenteeism, poor job performance, and isolation.

It is essential to try your best to balance work and life.

Best regards, John

Work: You hate doing + Long work hours = Stress = Health-related problems = Inability to work efficiently = More stress, and the cycle goes on.

HR Quote of the Day (14-02-2012) - AVS's Desk

"A good analysis. How does an antidote for the above look like?"

Do What You Like (You should be lucky if you fit in this category).

Like What You Do (Start developing a liking for the job that you do).

Is it difficult to understand? Then try the following:

Do What You Like (Westerners Love and Marry)

Like What You Do (Indians Marry and Love)

Incidentally, today being Valentine's Day, it is a happy coincidence on 14 Feb!!!

Thank you, AVS, for posting a thought-provoking message.

Regards,
V. Raghunathan, Navi Mumbai