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Do less this year but do it better

Typically, people start a new year resolved to achieve more than the previous year.

How, though? Some people make what I have always thought is a frankly strange commitment to “say yes to everything”. Others do the opposite, resolving to say no more frequently. In reality, either of those extremes could lead to bad outcomes.

Take the commitment to be busy, busy, busy all the time. Workaholism beckons for those who cannot turn down requests. Being absorbed in the task can mitigate workaholism’s worst effects, according to an Academy of Management Discoveries study published last year, but still anxiety about the job or obsessive ambition paves a pathway to health problems.

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安德魯•希爾

安德魯•希爾(Andrew Hill)是《金融時報》副總編兼管理主編。先前,他擔任過倫敦金融城主編、金融主編、評論和分析主編。他在1988年加入FT,還曾經擔任過FT紐約分社社長、國際新聞主編、FT駐布魯塞爾和米蘭記者。

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