tips for all you workaholics STRESS STRESS!

I'd say I'm under some pressure and suffering from small stress with my all the work I've got. A month ago when I really started working hard I tried to use these small tips that are suppose to improve your productivity.
- Clean your desk
- Clean your computers desktop
- Change the email so that it only checks email every 10min/1h/4h (which ever you prefer)
- Stop using Messenger
- etc..

After a month I've noticed these things work. Well my desks aren't clean anymore. They look more like Pearl Harbor in 1941.

But the thing is these things only minimize the distractions. They don't help when your head isn't working anymore. Too much LCD-display staring really melts down your brain. I really can't think strait anymore. I can concentrate 30min to something and then my brains stop obeying my commands.

Last autumn my head was crystal clear. Now I can really notice the difference..

So After one month I realized that I have to do something else than just work 14 hours a day. Unfortunately I realized all this too late and now I have only 1,5 weeks before I go skiing. This means now I really have to just work.

You see where I'm going? Once you step into this circle there's no backing out until you really tell yourself that this will be the last time I treat my brains and body like shit. I'm not going to promise that just quite yet. But I sure as hell know I'm not going to stay in that circle for the rest of my life.

Fuck circles! I like squares with no corners.


I'm going to leave you with this little piece of text from the latest issue of Time Magazine:

"Stress puts into motion a biological cascade involving hormones, glands and neural circuits, all activating one another in a complex feedback loop. When you are stuck in traffic or overwhelmed at work or worn down by the kids, the hypothalamus--a structure buried deep in the midbrain--tells your adrenal gland to pump out a supply of the stress hormone cortisol. Cortisol, in turn, tells your body to stop worrying about its basic metabolic needs and instead to "do the things you need to do to save yourself from whatever created the stress," says University of Virginia neuroscientist James Coan.

That's great if you're fleeing an attacking bear, since the things you need to do to save yourself require boosting your heart rate and respiration, tensing your muscles and generally cranking up your body's alert level. But such an energy-intensive system is designed to be used only in brief bursts; you either escape the bear or you get eaten by it, but either way the crisis ends. The daily stresses of the modern world can throw our bodies into emergency mode and keep us there. That takes a toll through high blood pressure, tension headaches and a lot of gnawed pencils. "If you're chronically releasing stress hormones, your body starts to fall apart," says Coan. "Ultimately, you're going to live less long--and you're going to be miserable.""

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1704686,00.html