Sounds like you’re being hard on yourself. If you work 6 days a week your heart is probably screaming to sit around and do naff all. Your brain, meanwhile, doesn’t know how to turn off!
Sounds a little silly, but have you tried meditating? Just to give your mind a little peace and quite and give yourself a bit more context
Been meaning to try meditating for quite some time now, but not got around to actually doing it yet
Embrace the boredom.
Sounds daft but just because your not doing anything productive doesn't mean you're doing nothing...well it kinda does but that's the point. It's nice to do nothing and I've got pretty darn good at it.
Learn to enjoy it!
Cheers
When I have a week off I usually spend the first day napping pretty much... I call it "recovery"
I spend the whole week not doing very much lol.
My dude, can I interest you in larping?
Which is what exactly? lol
You don't need to overcome it...Embrace it...
You've earnt it...
Cheers
6 days a week and then 1 off is hardcore... Dunno what you do but i cant think of many jobs where that's a healthy ratio in the long run.
You are never gonna get to do much with just one day off, you obviously just need that day to recover from the others.
Also very contradicting, you are a person that has to keep busy but cba to do anything anyway....
Well ok ! Good luck i guess !
Apologies for the contradiction, So i mean i always have to be doing something, whether thats when I get home I go clean the kitchen, cook dinner, play a game (which I tend to be enjoying less and less these days) working on a project in the garage or doing something in the garden, I'm always doing something but always feel its not enough and then feel disappointed in myself that I haven't worked on something that I've put on hold because of lack of time or whatever, its just a vicious circle.
I think it works on a number of levels and I’ve only really benefitted from some of the simpler ones. If your mind is anything like mine it will get into a spin over things unnecessarily. By observing how you are physically feeling you become present, and it stops the mind thinking, which breaks the feedback loops in yourself and allows your mind to relax. These videos are more explanatory than I can be, which are from a company called ‘Headspace’.
Thank you, I will check them out
OP - I feel like that all the time. It’s at its worst when I’m on nights as
@Rroff said. I have lots of things that I want to achieve and lots of things that I have to achieve in my spare time. I get frustrated that I’m not working at 100% all of the time. It’s easy to forget that you need to spend some time catching up on sleep and relaxation. I lose efficiency in pretty much every aspect in life if I work long stints or strange hours. It doesn’t mean that I can’t be productive in those times, but I’m definitely less efficient.
The key is forward planning. If you’ve got a day off 1:6 then plan to sit and watch TV for a couple of hours or have a proper lie in. I came off nights on Sunday morning and was meant to be writing my thesis yesterday. I felt horrendous, agitated, unable to focus and frustrated. So I didn’t do any writing and made a conscious decision to go and cut the grass and poke around the garden for the morning. I didn’t magically manage to write my whole thesis in the afternoon but actually managed to do some mock exam questions.
You have to be kind to yourself. Busy is good, but burnout is not. Oh, and if you really want to test your time management skills, have a child. It’ll blow your mind how much time you used to waste!
Cheers for your reply, and thankfully I don't have kids, putting up with my sisters child is enough for me haha
Best not to stay in bed too long: it just makes you feel terrible. Give yourself half an hour, maybe an hour, more time in bed than a work day, then get up, shower, do the normal morning routine so that you get set for the day.
But, also, don't beat yourself up about not being 100% productive. It's good to run a bit slower sometimes.
Cheers
I don't like to take too much time off of work in one go, as the time goes really quickly and I end up not doing anything. I now just take off Fridays to get a bit of a longer weekend, and I spread that over a bunch of months on the last half of the year. I enjoy this more than taking a week or 2 off at the same time.
I used to get 6 weeks holiday in my last job and due to the stressful environment, and never any downtime, my week off would be spent doing basically nothing, which then annoys me as I haven't accomplished anything I want to do.
That moment when you suddenly realist it's after lunchtime you are deep in a gaming session and still wearing your dressing gown...
As above my top tip for time off is as mentioned above, never start doing anything else before you have showered, eaten breakfast and done one chore.
I will try the routine you mention and see how things work out
Cheers
Work/life balance, you don't have it working 6 days a week with one day off.
I work Mon/Wed/Saturday, and I'm finished by 11am...
I hope I could find something more interesting but has a better work / life balance, and pays a half decent wage, i'm only on living wage at the moment at just over 20k, its my first job in the new area I moved to, so its not going to last forever but i'm stuck with it until I do find something else.
Sometimes a lazy do nothing day is great. Saturday I got up, had a shower and put on some shorts and a T-Shirt, then I just vegged with Stranger Things for most of the day
However the previous Sunday I woke up and decided to do something so drove to Southend and spent a few hours walking the seafront, eating donuts and ice cream and enjoying the sun.
Some days I do that, just sit and watch a few episodes of something, but then I do get bored and have to do something else, then realise what I'm doing isn't something I feel I need to be doing. So then I feel a bit crappy for not doing what I want to do. I tend to start a project or something, then take a break from it, then start something else, then I tend to go back to things when time allows.
Admittedly my 6 days working 1 day off really doesn't help with the life I want to live.
