Really Living 12 Mar 2009 10:54 am
Operation “Do One Less Thing”
Addendum to the post below:
I think over-productivity lies. There is not more to show for getting more done in a day, unless one would like to count more fatigue, more burn out, more exhaustion. Over-productivity has not saved us from national financial failure. It has not produced smarter children. It has not saved marriages. It has not preserved the planet. It doesn’t make us healthier, wealthier, or wise.
I think we should take a stand against over-productivity. Pressure school systems and employers to not open their doors before 8 am. Take weekends off. Let roosters announce sunrise again. Eat three meals a day and play outside at least one hour. Save overhead costs, slash budgets rather than jobs. Make the same money because our work is higher quality.
Doesn’t it make more sense for a company to stick to a 40 hour work week for all, rather than cut two employees and make the others work 60? It probably makes as much sense as keeping jobs in America instead of sending them overseas…healthy, happy people eat and spend and support. Broke, tired, unemployed people watch stock drop, eventually ambivilent.
What would happen if we all did one less thing today? If we all left 10 minutes earlier than usual? Listening to the news, I don’t think there’s a lot to lose by trying. Except maybe fatigue, burn out, exhaustion….
on 12 Mar 2009 at 2:58 pm 1.Susan said …
That does it, I am going to do one less thing today and not mop my kitchen floor. HEAR HEAR!
Love this post, Tia. I like the way the Europeans do it…less work, more play!
Susan
on 17 Mar 2009 at 7:51 am 2.Marsha said …
Oh girl, now you are talking my language! I’ve been preaching (and living it ha-ha) for years as an antidote to the work hard, get ahead, retire at 60 mentality. I used to say “why not just work enough to live NOW, and plan on continuing that leisurely lifestyle until much older?”
Amen, amen, amen!!
signed–a self-confessed slacker mom and slacker everything else!