Are you workaholic?

By Raúl Gorrín.-     Work is definitely a blessing that allows man to extent his full potential, both to guarantee his subsistence, and to show and develop his talents and abilities. At work, the human being gives the best of himself and for this he prepares from his earliest years studying and training in some office, vocation or profession. However, you should know the difference between “to give the best of you”, “accomplish the working responsibility” and “to become a workaholic” by forgetting about the rest of the activities and commitments to themselves, the family and society.

     For workaholics, work is the center of their lives and can’t resist working even if it is not at their office. They abandon any other activity and commitment established because of work. The workaholic cares little about what their loved ones feel to get to work after hours and leave the spaces for family and personal well-being.

     How to identify a workaholic? The first thing is to realize that work begins to be the center of everything and workaholics forget about themselves. The mind is concerned about work and what needs to be done, it is impossible to focus on other activities.

     There are three symptoms about workaholics, just take a look:

1.      Difficulty to relax: they can’t sleep at night or relax. They keep it altered and tense. Workaholic can‘t change their attitude even when they are resting. The work dominates everything in their lives and their conversations are exclusively about what happens at work.

2.      Control everything: they need to control every situation, circumstance and so on. Also, they are emotionally uncontrollable when they feel that something goes out of the way that they consider should follow the events.

3.      Easily identifiable: because it is difficult for them to relate outside the workplace. They have great difficulty in establishing links with people outside their workplace, they are isolated persons.

     Moreover, for workaholics, success is only for those that achieved their goals at workplace and the performance and productivity of the work monopolizes their aspirations. These people avoid personal problems, the affectivity with other people and any other situation that is located outside the office or company. In addition, workaholics are formed by the high competitiveness in some companies want to achieve figuration and they do anything to become notorious as professionals.

     Likewise, the excessive ambition can lead them to become obsessed increasing in the organizational pyramid and for that they are capable of whatever. They lack of uncertainties and scruples to be at the top positions inside the organizations. They lack of order and are unable to complete their tasks in the established timetables.

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