We're all tired of living. From the hustle and bustle of metropolitan areas, from the noise of urban transport. It's hard to remember the last time we managed to run barefoot on the grass - was it really in our childhood?
Factors of fatigue
Poor audio and video ecology are also fatigue factors:
- Sound ecology is clogged with music that comes from open shop doors, from car dealers, from the headphones of a guy who has to stand side by side all the way to work on the subway. We can't control what we hear, we just plug our ears with headphones or earplugs;
- Visual ecology does not allow urban dwellers to see the free horizon, which is very important for the human brain. It is no coincidence that the best vacation is a vacation at sea. The sight should not rest against skyscrapers, advertising banners, shouting signs.
It turns out that every hour and every day people living in the rhythm of the modern city are subjected to violence: they see what they don't want to see and listen to what they haven't chosen, but are forced to listen to. This is unnatural. Reaction to regular stress is nervous breakdown, emotional burnout, apathy, depression.
Why is it important
That's why it's so important to be able to rest. A lot of trainings and professional consultations are devoted to this topic. It turned out that over the past couple of decades, people have learned how to earn money, survive the crisis, create capital from scratch, and not despair, even if they suffered bankruptcy. But at the same time, they have completely forgotten how to rest.
A cure for fatigue
"I'm taking anxiety pills," a phrase you've heard from an American, comic book fan and fast food fan until recently. Today it is pronounced by Russian office managers, corporate owners, and large businessmen. They defeated the procrastinators and coped with laziness. For example, some bosses create a separate folder in Outlook service mail "When I don't want to work" and store tasks in it that can be delegated to subordinates.
They have become unhealthy themselves
Successful entrepreneurs have been mimicking the unhealthy environment in which they have to exist. This means that they have become unhealthy. And in addition to anxiety, their medical records may also contain information:
- Tiredness;
- Tiredness;
- neurosis.
By the way, in America, the number of working hours per week has been growing steadily since 1970. Not surprisingly, other countries make jokes about U.S. citizens, calling them shallow and superficial. After all, emotional stupidity, indifference, and alienation from society is another reaction to fatigue, another variant of adaptability to an unhealthy environment.
The reverse side of procrastination
Workaholism is the downside of procrastination. We thought it was bad and unproductive to be lazy, but at what point was it cool to work to the seventh sweat and black circles in front of our eyes?
A weekend without social media
One of the gurus of the Russian time management has deduced some rules of rest and leisure planning. He knows how important it is to be on a good account in the working team, but also believes that those who work hard and hard, should have a lot of rest and have a good time.
Forced rest
Add to the list of tasks for Friday a review of the posters and announcements of the upcoming week's concerts. Subscribe to the entertainment newsletter. A trip to a sports match or vernissage should be included in the calendar of events as well as a deal negotiation or a brainstorming session. Planning will take no more than a quarter of an hour. And colleagues will see that Saturday is busy with the jazz festival and will not bother with calls and letters at this time.
Cherish the rituals
Everyone has their own: ladies gather for a hen party once a month, guys do not miss hockey matches in the sports bar, mature men arrange informal meetings in a cigar club, fathers of families on Sundays take their children to the zoo and dolphinarium. Do not deviate from tradition and rest will become a habit.
By the way, the Internet Sabbath is very appropriate for a vacation, and then it lasts not about a day, and all the time allocated for rest. In order not to succumb to the temptation, do not take your laptop, leave your smartphone at home. For communication with loved ones will suffice and usual inexpensive models without access to the Internet.
Foreign experience and our reality
Employees of the laboratory of the University of Verona in Italy leave their workplaces at 11 a.m. for a cup of coffee. At noon, they go to lunch in slender rows. The Japanese perform collective gymnastics in the mornings and then go to their classrooms. Frequent breaks or care about the physical condition of the body do not make foreigners people who are not as jealous of work as Russians can do. They do the same amount of work, they have exactly the same avatars and dissatisfied bosses. The difference is that they don't push fatigue to the limit, but they extinguish it at an early stage.