The season of rest
In Hebrew 4:10 of the bible, it is stated ‘for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his.’
Regardless of your occupation, there is a time that we need to put aside everything to rest.
There is always unfinished urgent matter that hinders us from rest.
The lack of rest can cause our subordinates not able to perform to their optimised potential.
Losing a capable staff due to extreme burnout is going to be a great loss to any company.
Stress
We definitely cannot avoid stress regardless of our occupation.
Stress can make us perform better in meeting deadlines as well as provide the drive to accomplish the needed task.
The drawback that we must realise is we need to take a break from our stress when we have endured it for months or even years.
It is only a matter of time that our mental health and body start to signal us with negative symptoms.
When we notice our subordinates are not performing to their usual form, we must identify the need for them to take a break.
By letting them rest would ensure we can have them back to perform their jobs more effectively.
Worry
One of the struggles that many perfectionists face is worry of not doing a task well enough.
There is always self-blaming of not doing something perfect enough to our own standard.
We often worry even when a task is completed as we have high expectation of others’ opinion.
Perfectionists just cannot stop worrying and this worry does not bring a good mental health.
Our most responsible subordinate can often be a perfectionist so we must be aware and assure him/her that the task completed is good enough.
Worry can cause people to have sleepless nights and worry often leads to fear.
Worry can even lead to mental breakdown for the most capable staff in our organisation.
We need to prevent worry from taking over.
Face the brutal facts
We must evaluate on our own for the two things I stated in this article.
Have stress and worry become long term residents?
When we can evaluate this, we can identify that we need to learn how to take a break from our business or job so that we do not rest permanently with breakdown that destroys every aspect of our lives.
Keep ourselves and our employees in this evaluation to maintain good physical and mental health.
In conclusion
I took a break today and I was lying on my bed when this inspiration came for me to write this article about rest.
We all know that rest is important but we are guilty of neglecting rest to our body.
The richest man in the world would never be able to enjoy his wealth when he is unable to take a break to rest.
We need to learn to take things slower and let our body and mind rest from all of our stress and worry.
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