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10 Signs You Might Be a Workaholic
1: You’re the first to arrive in the office and the last to leave. You might think, “I like coming in early because the office is quieter and I can focus,” or “I like to stay late because it’s a chance for me to organize my projects for the next day.” But be careful of doing both all the time. No one is meant to consistently log overtime.
2: You work through lunch hour. Every lunch hour. Many of us believe that the best way to get more work done is to work more hours. But the reality is that we’re more productive when we build in intermittent periods of renewal during our day. In other words, take a lunch break whenever possible. Not only is consistently eating lunch at your desk a little disgusting, it could also be a warning sign of workaholism.
3: You don’t have any real hobbies. If when asked what you do for fun, you respond, “I like to read”, when what you read are reports for work or “I like to work out” when you read work reports while running on the treadmill it’s time to reevaluate. Answering “I like to work” also doesn’t cut it. You need to find some hobbies that don’t involve what you do from 9 to 5.
4: You get stressed when you’re not at work. Feeling stressed at work is occasionally healthy, it can motivate you to the finish line of an important project, or it could even serve as a sign that it’s time for you to take time off for self-care. But you should be concerned if the source of your stress is that you’re not working. Workaholics that cannot relax on vacation. Those people who are white-knuckling it, and becoming irritated and snappy, they’re actually going through withdrawal.
5: You can’t get no satisfaction. Cause you try, and you try, and you try, and ... You get the point. “Being a perfectionist” sounds like a stock descriptor to include on a resume or mention in an interview, but you have to be careful with walking your talk. It’s good to strive for better, but it’s bad if you don’t recognize achievements, both for your staff and yourself.
6: You devalue personal priorities. Do you make fun of “Sue,” your co-worker who always seems to be on vacation? Or do you have snarky remarks about “Bob” because he opted to use 12 weeks of family medical leave to stay home with his newborn? Tread lightly. Workaholics have trouble with self-care and devoting attention to their families, so they also are mystified by co-workers who do. In fact, part of the “abstinence” treatment for workaholics includes instituting a self-care plan that allots for specific hours for work, relationships, play, and self-care.
7: You don’t take real vacations. It’s become fashionable to work a little on vacation and check your email intermittently “just in case.” But if you’re working more than you’re vacationing while on vacation, or if you’re not taking vacations where you don’t work at all, you might have a problem. Vacations are good for your health, your psyche and your productivity. We have to discipline ourselves to take regular breaks and build them into our schedules.
8: Your mind is at work even when you are not. And speaking of vacations, I always say the workaholic is someone on the ski slopes who is thinking about work, versus the healthy worker is someone at work thinking about the ski slopes. Be on guard if your mind constantly wanders to work subjects when it should be engaged in other activities. We call these “brown-outs.” Similar to the blackouts of an alcoholic, a brown-out is a phenomenon where a workaholic is so preoccupied with work that they’re not present in the moment they’re in.
9: You report for duty even when you’re sick. We’ve said it before, but here we go again: Working while sick is a bad move, and you won’t get kudos for doing so. You could end up making a sickness-induced mistake on your work, and you might take longer to recover because you’re not getting proper rest.
10: You don’t feel well. Similar to abusing a substance, abusing work could also have physiological effects. There are different degrees of workaholism. For people who I’d call very serious workaholics, there’s always a physical response. Research shows workaholics have higher burnout rates, truncated career trajectories, and that they’re at higher risk for heart attack and Type 2 diabetes. They also have a compromised immune system. We think that you should also stay mindful of high blood pressure, gastrointestinal problems and constant headaches.
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Patty Block, President and Founder of The Block Group, established her company to advocate for women-owned businesses, helping them position their companies for strategic growth. Charting the course for impactful, sustainable, profitable businesses, the beacon is control: of your strategic direction, your money, your time, your staffing, and your ability to bring in business. The Block Group brings together the people, resources and ideas that build results.
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