Essay On Happiest People

We have to remember that work is important for our self-esteem and helps to ensure we fulfill our values in life. The happiest people are not people who don’t have a care in the world; those people are bored. The happiest people tend to be busy people, but they don’t feel as though they’re rushed off their feet. In other words, they have balance in their lives.

We should regularly ask ourselves ‘what’s the most important thing for me to do right now?’ We can’t do it all, and everything is not equally important. Most people get 80 per cent of their results, and therefore benefits, from 20 per cent of the work they do, so focus on the 20 per cent. You may have heard of the 80/20 rule before. Just because something is urgent doesn’t mean it’s important and just because it’s important doesn’t mean it’s urgent. Urgent tasks demand our

Hopping madly from task to task makes us no fun to be around. We will crash mentally and end up achieving nothing. Running around like a headless chicken only makes us a headless chicken, not an efficient human being. Time management and prioritisation are tools that really help with reducing this behaviour.

Track time. We should be aware of, know and understand how we spend it, for both work and leisure. Then we can decide, from a position of awareness, what’s necessary and what satisfies us. What are our patterns? We all fall into them accidentally and should try to find ways to avoid them. Patterns become habit and habit isn’t a good reason to do anything. If it’s not a recurring priority task then it’s done because we always do it, it’s an addiction. Because we always do it isn’t an indication that it’s a priority. Be aware of time conflicts between work and life and plan to avoid them or manage them.

Manage our time. We should learn to cut out or delegate what we don’t enjoy or can’t handle. Organise tasks and do what needs to be done, and then let the rest go. (time management is another topic later