I have seen people who do nothing all day and when you ask them why they didn’t do one or the other, they tell you that they didn’t have time. I’m not saying it’s bad to be lazy. There is a kind of laziness that comes from the body’s need to restore itself. Then you can fall into a deep sleep and do nothing all day. Maybe you’re just walking around in your pajamas with your coffee in hand. A kind of home leaves, in the absence of money or time to go somewhere on leave.
Vacations are good either at home or around your town. There are still sabbaticals. Those holidays are brought to a certain nation, that’s where their existence comes from, from the Jews, as it were, and they are for long periods, of one, two, or three years. During this time you do nothing related to your work.
This type of leave, i.e. sabbatical, lends itself when you have worked a lot on the project, and on a difficult project that has stretched over a longer time, like 10 years or thereabouts. You need an extended vacation for your body to get back to normal. When I say body I also mean the brain, including.
Sitting all the time with our eyes on the monitor, all the time bent over the work, we involuntarily disconnect ourselves from those around us, our loved ones, our friends, and nature. For this reason, we need time to go out, to walk, to kick through the leaves in the fall, to crunch the snow under our boots in the winter, to splash in the warm water in the summer, etc.
You divide your time in the way you learned at home, at school, at work, most of the time. That is, some trainers form you as a person, from your youth, shape you later, then you share your time according to what you have learned. Of course, there are also autonomous people, they divide their time as they want. However, it is more difficult and after longer periods it is felt and translates into anxiety, stress, etc.
There are two broad categories of periods during the day: day and night. Some people function better at night. There they find peace and can work independently without being disturbed. This way they can concentrate better. Other people, most of them, respect the body’s natural biological program, that is, they sleep at night and work during the day.
But even these periods must be subdivided somehow. That means you won’t be working non-stop during the day. You also have breaks, and periods when you eat, periods of relaxation, periods of physical movement, periods of administrative work, such as bathing, washing clothes, preparing food, or cleaning.
This is where the difficulty comes in. It’s hard to break away from work when you’ve started to enjoy it, and then you can neglect other things if, for example, you work as a freelancer. In the same way, when you relax with a cup of tea, a cigarette, or a cup of coffee, it’s hard to go back to work and it’s like you’re sitting still like you’re resting.
Unfortunately or fortunately we are not machines. We cannot divide time perfectly into strict periods for each activity, although in some environments we can, such as military environments. For this reason, or precisely for this reason, we prioritize. That is, we do what is most important the first time. One of the most important things is food, hydration, rest, and work. Knowing this, we can somehow alchemize the periods of work, administrative schedule, and relaxation to yield, to be more productive, and last but not least, to feel better.