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Hello everyone!

I hope you are enjoying the weekend. And on this weekend, among other things, I read the possible topics for the Weekend-Engagement challenge in the #WeekendExperiences community hosted by @galenkp and many are interesting, but among all of them I choose one of them.

The Spectrum. Where on the workaholic or relaxaholic spectrum are you?

I choose this one because of the post I published yesterday "I Do My Best", in which I express what I felt and thought while writing those words, that we have to give our best, do our best, everything we can, even though it's true that it is not always easy, we get tired or we can lose motivation, but in the end there is always satisfaction if we do things well.

And what about the spectrum?
Like all in life, a balance is needed. I think it is difficult to achieve it in reality and in the end we are more positioned on one side than the other. Let's see...

Workaholic

I think I was, in the past I was more on that side, I studied a lot, many hours sitting, I always wanted the best results. Later, over the years and in different jobs, I always tried to do everything as well as possible, although in real life it is more difficult, because there are more people involved as well and everything itself is always changing and often stressful.

And it was that stress that in the end led me to move along that spectrum, you have to rest to be better, to have more energy and also to be more productive. We have not come just to work, we have come to live, and that includes many things, which sometimes due to so much work we miss a lot.

I don't want to miss everything, I don't want to feel like I'm only working and sleeping, almost like a 2.0 slave in front of a screen, but here I am today, Sunday, taking a break but also working a bit (there is some reason and I will compensate this). Now it's different because...

Relaxaholic

I've decided I want time for myself too, time is the only thing we really have, the only thing we can't get back in life, and in truth, we get paid to spend hours of our lives doing something. So there are hours that are very valuable to me too.

Lying on the beach, for example, it seems that we do nothing, but there I feel life, there I feel alive and connected to the universe and everything around me. There I feel the sun, vitamin D, the healing breeze and the relaxing sea. My body relaxes and my mind calms down. Can that natural and real moment be more value than sitting on an office chair under electrical lights?

Our mind becomes many times our worst enemy because it tells us that we have to work, that money is needed, that we have to eat, and that this is being lazy. I don't believe it. I think we have to work of course because the system is like that, true, but we have to give value to that quality time, in which we stop listening to that mind that wants to make us feel guilty, to listen to the birds and their songs to our heart that tells us: "rest, relax, now everything is fine, this is your time and your moment, you deserve it".

Final Thoughts
So I gradually stop being a workaholic over time, as I understand something about life, what we are and what we come to. And on that spectrum I am moving away from guilt, stress and overwhelm, from losing nerves, health and inspiring moments (not always, we are in the process).

Now I try to get closer to that point of balance, even surpass it to get closer without fanaticizing to peace of mind above all, to health, to breathe deeply, to value the small moments and details of life, and to leave quality time for myself, and so lie down on the warm sand, breathe deeply and look at the sea.