Release The Pressure

Everyone knows the apocryphal story about how many words for snow there are in the Inuit language
The point is, lots of languages have special words (or great long lists of them) to define experiences unique to their culture.
Take the Japanese for example.
They have a word, ‘karoshi’ which means ‘death by overwork’.
I find it fascinating that such a word could even exist, since the concept itself has to be prevalent enough to warrant being named in the first place.
But as the pressures we face seem to grow with every passing day,
I wonder how far we are from a time where the Oxford English Dictionary will need to be updated with a direct translation for ‘karoshi’.
Overwork is an interesting thought – I’ve said before that too much of anything is too much.
And that principle applies to work as well.
Longer hours, heavier workloads are very rarely the solution.
After all, you can work all the hours in the day, but the task will keep expanding to fill whatever time you have.
We need to be more disciplined about the way we work and the way we allocate our time.
So take a step back, look at what you’re trying to achieve and figure out a plan to deliver it.
Before you know it, the pressure will have eased up and you’ll actually have time to pursue other interests.
I’m going to use mine to study Japanese.