Learn to let go

It is an old advice: get a good night's sleep. It's true. Too many people push themselves too hard.
A lot of up an coming, young professionals feel that if they were to work 14 hours a day plus 4 hours at the gym and pub, they will be fine. Yes, they will be fine, if they are lucky, for about 10 years.
Then in their mid-30s, normally their health will cave in because all the stresses and accumulated abuse of bodily functions will kick in.
How many times have you told yourself that you really need some good sleep and then don't? For goodness sake, don't torture yourself. The world and all that office work can wait.
Your continued good health can't - good sleep is essential for a refreshed body and a calm disposition. Look at it this way, if you are going to stay awake for 24 hours and finish your work, you are still not going to be the boss.
That's why the other guy is the boss because he can keep your awake for 24 hours while he has his beauty sleep.
When you doze off, you are actually letting go. Letting go is such a simple phrase but too many people misconstrue it as "giving up". Yes, in a way, it is giving up but it's actually giving up on the built-up stresses of a long, drawn day.
Your body and mind can only take so much. All organic lifeforms will break down when they reach critical mass. Even machines break down, and these objects created by man are not even organic, nor are they lifeforms.
Letting go means that you will continue to work at a solution but you will not lose sight of other important aspects of daily living. That means having proper meals, spending time with your family and having fun with your hobbies.
Pity the man who devotes all his waking hours for the betterment of the company he works for. Your boss may notice your unusual diligence but he may not be impressed by your stupidity.
Most organisations will prefer a diligent worker who also uses his commonsense. That means getting your priorities right. If you have to go home, then go home. If you need to rest, then rest. What can be more simpler than that?
If the only way for you to let go is to check into an intensive care unit at the hospital, then you really need some serious counselling. Too many people, in their pursuit of a healthy bank account, forget about the other more important things in life.
These are striking a balance between office and home. Just imagine that if you drop dead right now, will your company grind to a halt. Most probably not. Yes, if you can accept this cold, hard fact, then you may not want to be a office warrior that you have imagined yourself to be.
Letting go can also be applied to other facets of life. It can be used intelligently on relationships and on problems that cannot be solved immediately. Learn to let go, as it is often said but seldom heard in its right context by the majority of people.
Take for example, if a dear one has departed under tragic circumstances, you would probably be in mourning for some time. But when the period is over, you must let go, otherwise it is going to do you more harm than that person you are grieving for.
Imagine this: for hundreds of generations mothers and fathers have worried for their children and over them, and yet when the time came, the subjects of their worries continued with their lives.
And all the worriers and worried-over eventually find their way to their graves. So where does all that "not letting go" take you - nowhere actually.
Problems are solved easier if your mind is at rest and your heart is at peace. This is not hearsay but a scientific discovery in recent years. Researchers have found out that problematic situations are often solved faster when the mind is at peace.
It is said that solutions to problems are often found at the three B's - Bedroom, Bathrub and Buses. These are the three places where most of us are most relaxed.
So let to let go and let life takes it natural course. You won't regret it.