The importance of de-stressing
Like many hard working individuals (I want to say workaholics, but I think that’s too strong a word), I have designed my entire lifestyle around doing my job as best as I can. To start off with, I make sure I get plenty of sleep so I so I am fully charged to handle the 8-10 hours of taxing activities. I follow news and subscribe to feeds that relates to my work, and catch up whenever I have some free time. I don’t smoke, don’t drink alcohol, don’t do drugs and limit my coffee consumption to social outings. I even try to stay active and eat healthy since it affects my health and eventually the way I work (but admittedly, I easily compromise those tasks when more after hour work is required or the tasks I handled for that day was more draining than usual). While I think it’s important to give your job high importance, I also understand that life is about balance. So while your job may expose you to stress, it is important to counter that with some de-stressing tasks....