My Life Strategy has Always Been to Cope with Stress by Working Hard

But now I realize that you can definitely over do hard work and while overworking might provide you with more money and success it can also halt some positive things by taking up too much of your time or providing an opportunity to avoid things.
Is there anything in your life that you find to be both a positive and a negative or that you wish you could learn to balance out better?

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wildbill83 · 36-40, M

many have worked themselves into an early grave with that philosophy...

once people get to 40-50 years old, they must learn to realize that their body can't withstand the punishment and stress that it did 20 years prior

my father learned that lesson the hard way; once by jumping/being thrown 30ft off a piece of machinery and landing on hard pavement, and almost exactly a year later via a heart attack that required an airlift

you just gotta learn to accept your limitations, and distance and/or avoid things that cause stress & hardship.

REMsleep · 41-45, F

@wildbill83 Hope your dad is OK. Sounds like a harsh lesson learned. I'm always making excuses saying..." I"ll slow down once I have XZY" but I never reach my goal