Although technology has enabled employees’ efficiency to excel in many ways, being constantly plugged-in can equate to never officially clocking out. Here are three reasons and ways to stop overworking. Overworking makes mistakes more likely. If you tend to work through lunch, stay late most evenings and/or work from home during ‘off’ hours, the tendency…
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Three Healthy Ways to Handle Stress
There is hope for insomniacs and the super stressed thanks to the mental health movement called positive psychology. Proponents of this movement contend that the stress itself is not the culprit of ill effects such as insomnia, but how people think about it and their resulting reactions. Dale Carnegie said, “It isn’t what you have…
6 Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits High
Fatigue and worry can sometimes be a given with just about any job you have, even for those with the “perfect” job doing the things they absolutely love. For many, there’s always too much to do, too little time, not enough resources and then of course there’s always the issue of involving multiple people with…
Thick Skin, Sense of Humor, Short-Term Memory
In a sales meeting not long ago and not so far away, the sales manager was standing up in the front of the conference room jotting information on the chalk board. It was getting ugly fast. Things had not been going very well as it approached the end of the month. With about 15 salespeople…