Take a Break to Progress, the Syntax of Success

In agriculture economics, we have what we termed as Pasture Management to ensure ranchers maximising the grass resources they have - maximize the potential growth of grass while ensuring health of land and livestock in their range. In industrial economics, we also have the Marginal Productivity Theory, which argues that a business firm should only pay a worker to work longer/overtime only when he could add to the firm’s well-being or profits for each additional hour he puts into his work. What about in the socioeconomics of our own well being? How do you manage your seasons-productivity of life?

Perhaps, one of the most common mistakes many people made is not taking the much needed break from their daily routines even when they are burned out, having capacity/performance drop or worse still, suffering from health and/or emotional deterioration due to the intense pressure of living and surviving. Indeed, each one of us needs/deserves to take seasonal breaks at different levels, different time frame. If we don’t give ourselves these breaks to revive, our creativity and productivity will suffer and our career and life could also be in jeopardy mainly due to the earlier-mentioned overworked syndromes.

Please do take some time off from work and go do whatever you love/want to do. Too many people think that by working hard every day of their life will pay off in some sort of way, of which it really doesn’t. There are so many more valuable and less stressful things outside of work. The only way to reap the rewards and “live the good life” is to take a good break, go home to visit your family and friends and/or go for a nice long holiday somewhere …and forget about your stressful, boring work in the office!

Come on, life is much more that those works that drained you dry. Who knows, by taking a long overdue break will help changing our life’s perspective, open up new opportunity for breakthroughs, gain new experience and reconcile old relationships that are of more valuable, meaningful to our life. Dude, if you have any adventurous plan and are looking for someone to explore together, please feel free to drop me a note here, at Breakthrough Desperado!