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Last night, I had a guilt trip of working to complete more tasks and assignments after I returned home midnight. I could not discipline myself to sleep early enough due to being focused on completing those tasks. As a result, I slept in this morning. For the class that I did make every effort to avoid missing, I had missed today's class with bad luck too, as I have lost attendance marks due to a surprise quiz given today. It is one of the many moments where I felt punished for exerting efforts on completing tasks and assignments in the hopes of meeting high personal expectations.
These moments happen a fair bit, especially when I spend a lot of time and intellectual resources on certain tasks that did not pay off for me in the end in terms of meeting expectations. I know it is a highly recommended move to migrate away certain activities to see things from a fresh perspective. For example, engaging in more social gatherings instead of constantly investing time in school. However, I kept on holding off on it to avoid trying to have more fun socially at the expense of not meeting the high expectations that others and I placed on myself.
Nevertheless, this post is one example of not working smart (staying up to complete tasks instead of sleeping) resulting in being punished (in the form of lost marks) rather than meeting expectations. How do you often deal with this thought process to reduce this problem's occurrence?
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02.03.10
"Try not. Do or do not, there is no try."
Yoda
In the workplace, you are being judged on performance, what you actually get done. The effort you exert doesn't matter, if you can't complete the tasks, and any explanation or justification sounds like excuse making.
Either you get the work done, by whatever means you can, or you don't. If you don't, no reason (other than life threatening emergency) is going to fully excuse your lack of performance and production.
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