How poor health disrupts workaholics
I read somewhere, “if you die, your company would take barely 2 days to replace you.” Though its a very strong line , but this is not the reason itself. There are many, as many as there are to continue a job. Yeah! The choice is difficult indeed. Being Workaholics might not be as good as you think. Lately, there have been enough discussions on it. While work life balance already started being a concern long back, not much attention is paid to health.
Kevin Gianni says, “Most people work hard and spend their health trying to achieve wealth only to retire and spend their wealth to get back the health!” If you’re sick, How are you going to focus? Or what are you going to do with the money anyway? Money is important and that’s an undeniable fact. But nobody would enjoy immense wealth on a hospital bed. If you have less of it, you might not have luxury but you can still be happy. You have to work, you have to earn but the point here is if your health is not the priority, Nothing is going to stay forever with you.
Most of the people reading this would already be knowing this or maybe even have a very strong feeling for this fact. Still we all know, once we give in ourselves to work, we forget everything else. But we need to bring this into our practice and ultimately subconscious nature. As much as we care for the stakeholders of our work , the people we owe something and even the work itself, we need to be responsible for the body we live in, for the mind and soul that keeps us going.
A site study says that the pandemic and its effects might have cost the global economy up to 8 percent of real GDP in 2020. Yet each year, poor health costs twice as much — around 15 percent of global real GDP from premature deaths and lost productive potential among the working-age population, and found that economic impact of health could add $12 trillion to global GDP in 2040. It is also evident that your company or your work would suffer more due to your health related issues, sudden illness or unplanned sick leaves than your planned absence or annual leaves even if they are more in number. And not just illness, even if the job is causing too much stress which has started affecting your daily life and well-being, you should consider on other options.
Our elders say, “ Money comes and Money goes”,” Nothing is permanent”. One thing which will stay with you till the end is your body! We nourish small plants and make them grow healthy & beautiful, we nurture our kids from the very beginning. Likewise , the time you have now for it, is not going to come back. You cant plan that yoga- meditation class after retirement, you cant ignore balanced diet and eat junk now to expect good health in future. Now, is the time we have and this is how it works. We have to have this belief in our system that every minute “i have to do what keeps me healthy”, though some cheat days are allowed!!
We are not going to have this foundation time in future. Lets not get so busy at work that we ignore our most valuable asset only to feel disappointed and helpless at the other end. At work too, we are supposed to give a high level performance that we might give even while ignoring health but that is certainly short lived. If it is emotionally, mentally & physically so draining that you don't want to show up for work at all then its time to quit. You would wish to wait till you get another option or supporting finances but you wont be able to continue such a role for a long time.
Think about ‘Why health is important than your job’, Don't you agree?
