You finished working, you closed the computer, but your mind is still open. During dinner the email that was pending appears. When you go to bed, you review meetings for the next day. In the early morning, you look at your cell phone “just for a second,” and even when you’re on vacation you try to keep an eye on what’s happening in the office, convincing yourself with the idea that “if I keep looking at it, it won’t accumulate as much when I get back.”
This functioning is one of the most common—and most normalized—forms of high-performance anxiety.
Unlike the best-known representations, this anxiety does not usually manifest itself as an obvious crisis. There are no dramatic scenes or visible collapses. It is presented in a neat way: organized, responsible people, always available, who comply with everything expected. Everything, except with their own times of rest and care.
It is expressed in everyday gestures: checking email at the last minute “just in case”, responding to messages while sharing time with others, taking the cell phone even to spaces that were previously pauses. Without realizing it, we live in a permanent state of alert.
We suggest you think that the difference is subtle but fundamental. Commitment is born from a choice. Constant urgency, on the other hand, is usually sustained by fear: of losing opportunities, of being left out, of not being up to par if you don’t respond immediately. And that cost is seen: the body usually manifests it in insomnia, contractures, irritability and a growing difficulty in enjoying even free moments.
The challenge is not to abandon goals, but to learn to manage time.
We want to propose some simple practices that can help you:
Closing ritual of the day: dedicate the last minutes of work to writing down things for the next day. What is written stops circulating mentally.
Spaces without screens: establish at least one daily period without cell phones—for example, during meals—and maintain it.
Agenda for worries: If the mind activates at night, record the topic and define when it will be addressed the next day.
Within the framework of the support programs that we develop at Nexo to balance work and personal life, we frequently see professionals trapped in this operation. Not because they don’t know how to rest, but because they never learned to enable that limit without guilt.
If these scenes look familiar, that’s a sign. It’s time to train a healthier relationship with work to learn to take care of yourself.
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