Reduce Work Stress With A 20 Hour Work Week
I remember a friend telling me that it didn’t make sense to her that people would spend the first third of their life preparing for the second and then spend the second third of their life preparing for the third and then die.
If you calculated, how much of your life will you spend at work away from the things you enjoy and the people you want to be with?
How much of your youth will be spent sitting in an office cubicle instead of outside travelling the world or chasing dreams?
Working 40 hours a week is a stone age model that can be changed IF people would only start changing the way they work and learned to be more efficient with their time.
Unfortunately the in office work schedule of 8 hours day doesn’t encourage people to be more efficient workers, so the first step is to escape this constraint.
Escape the Office to Escape the 9 to 5
As long as your company insists that you work 8 hours a day while you are in the office, you will need to escape that environment. This can be achieved either by asking to telecommute from your job, quiting your job and finding a telecommuting compatible position, or becoming a self employed freelancer or business owner.
Work Less and Produce More
It is possible to do a 40 hour weeks worth of work in 20 hours if you learn to eliminate useless tasks and prioritize your work.
The usually time wasters that you would use to kill time in the office like web surfing, chatting and staring at the wall need to stop once you escape the office.
Simply by eliminating these little time wasters and actually focusing on the task at hand, you will find that you will get your work completed much faster and as a result will have more free time at home.
Conclusion
Working in an office unfortunately leads to lazy habits of thinking whereby people feel productive by simply going to work and staying long hours, even if they get nothing done.
Working on your own at home means taking charge of your schedule and making sure you get the job done.
The benefits of being in control of your time mean that you can do whatever you want in the extra time you do have.
I really don’t miss those early morning commutes, and knowing that I can start work at 2pm if I want to doesn’t hurt as well.
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