It becomes more than important to work hard in the current era of consistent hardships and infinitely huge desires. But how often should you work hard? Do you need to stress yourself every day for the rest of your lives? Or is it stupidity? How much work is hard work, and how much is simply a waste of time? Before you enter the endless loop, it is important to answer what does don’t work too hard mean.
When someone repeatedly tells you not to stress yourself too much or don’t work your ass off! It means they are detecting that you are entering a state of chaos within your mind. You need to take a break and let things take turns on their own. It’s time for you to take a break and relax. However, sometimes this phrase can also be used as an insult. People might try to bring you down by saying so and distracting you from your work.
You need to understand the difference between the two diverse ways this phrase can be put to you. You need to choose whether the opposite party is telling this to you out of concern or out of jealousy. And believe me when I say that yes, it’s a difficult process to differentiate between the two. Before you judge them, you need to start by working on yourselves. Intrigued how? Scroll over already!
What is your working pattern?
This question might seem insignificant at first, but trust me on this one because it holds 70% of your answers. So, what is your working pattern? Start right from the moment you up. Following is a list of questions you need to answer to understand your working pattern.
- At what time do you wake up?
- Do you meditate?
- Do you exercise?
- What sort of breakfast, lunch, and dinner do you have? A colorful plate (includes fruits and salads along with nuts), or is it a piece of junk (typical oily unhealthy ones)?
- How often do you hang out with your family and friends?
- How often do you participate in joyful activities?
- Do you pay attention to your habits?
- What is the duration of your sleep hours?
- Do you have any medical condition caused due to excessive stress?
- Are you a pessimist?
- Are you an overthinker?
- Do you bring your office work to your home?
- Do you always fight with your colleagues, or is it a good picture in the office?
- How often do you check your phone (only related to office use)?
These simple yet complicated questions will set a clear picture of your working pattern right in front of you. It will help you classify your habits as healthy or unhealthy. If your maximum habits are unhealthy or equal, let me tell you a thing. The famous author of the book ‘Atomic Habits’ James Clear, said that a mere 1% improvement every day would help you have a year with an increase in your productivity rate from 0 to 37%! And conversely, if you keep up with bad habits, you have a year with zero productivity.
Are you a perfectionist or are you anxious?
Are you one of those who don’t like the pages in files to be folded or crumpled? Or are you the ones to cross-check the files over and over again just so that you don’t get scolded for the same? A perfectionist and an anxious person share the same goal but two different routes of concern.
Both wish to have a perfect ending. But, a perfectionist wants it to be perfect because that way, he can claim his superiority of being exquisite every time. However, an anxious person wants to avoid scolding or abuse and hence wants everything to be perfect. You know which one is you, right?
Despite the different routes of concern, the end goal and the process involved to achieve the same remains unaltered. In either case, you exert yourself way too much to get the exclusive results every time.
How often people tell you not to work too hard?
Suppose people are consistently observing and telling you not to exert yourself too much. Then, it can surely be a signal to take a pause and analyze your working pattern. If your loved ones are fighting with you so that you spare them some time, then it is an alarming situation, I must say. It is because family always comes over anything!
If you are getting sick due to exertion, then it is time you take a break and relax. People can’t constantly be telling you the same thing now and then. They must be observing you getting all tired and stressed due to work.
However, if your enemies or the ones envying you tell you to stop working hard. Then, it is a sign they are afraid of your potential. This, in turn, means you have got everything you need, and you need to keep going.
How can you handle the urge of working hard constantly?
Change your habits, and your habits shall lead you to a better version of yourselves! You need to address the situation peacefully and tackle it calmly. You can only do this by calming the storm of anxiety within you.
Take a rejuvenating nap or a refreshing tea. Get a diary and pen. Start by tracking your habits and set some simple yet achievable goals. Break your things into smaller portions. Be consistent. Slowly, you will see yourself getting out of this trap all on your own.
FAQ’S
- How to respond to don’t work too hard? If your work colleague or any person from your work firm tells you not to work too hard, make sure you give them a decent reply. Politely, either you can smile at them and say yes, thank you for your concern. Or you could even play around a bit by joking or so.
- Is it don’t work too hard or too hard? Although they might sound similar. But, the correct usage is, ‘don’t work too hard. It means you are telling the other person not to stress over something for longer durations of time.
- How to say don’t work too hard? If you are going to approach your junior, you can go a bit casual and pat their back while saying don’t work too hard. And, if it’s your senior, you can add sir/madam at the end of the statement.
- How to deal with a person who works too hard? It often becomes difficult to communicate with a person who works too hard. In such cases, you can begin the conversation by discussing work-related issues. Also, you will have to be highly prompt and accurate while speaking. Or else, you might lose a chance to communicate with an extremely hard worker.
- Is don’t work too hard an insult? It depends on the way the other person uses the tone while saying this phrase. If they are trying to make a pun on you, then it is an insult. However, if someone says it out of genuine concern, then this might not be an insult.
