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by mafalda 1538 days ago
As a trans person, I've spent most of my life wandering, evading some kind of self-loneliness. But in the last two years I've started comprehending that is not only about the way we spend our time, but also how we use our body-mind credit too. Living as much about the present as it is about the future. So it is important to understand that overworking today may impact your mental health tomorrow.

With this in mind, the one thing for me is peace of mind. I want to have a nice live and enjoy the world around me in a healthy way. Giving my best to ensure that it not only does apply to me, but apply to people around me.

I really do not care if this means improving a banking system do deliver better prices to clients, cooking or teaching people. If I can excel and do some good, it is valid.

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> it is important to understand that overworking today may impact your mental health tomorrow

That is so true.

I find it helpful to go into situations like that with the cognizance that my main reason to do extra work now are to do less work later (spending a little extra time double checking work, for example, might make you stay an hour or two later for a while, but the return comes when you spend less time fixing bugs or responding to production issues).

Not nearly as helpful to be working extra simply because a business operates as a skeleton crew, for example.