It’s the end of the financial year for us here and there seems to be an unending amount of work. Pending files and bills have to be cleared before the financial year closes or else we will not get the benefits for it in this year tax filing. This catch up on the work back log has turned me into a night owl. Due to this excessive work load I had noticed that for the last few days I've had trouble sleeping and I have been going to bed at 3:00 or so in the morning on most nights. I work from home and at times I am required to work after hours to finish up pending work also besides the normal work. I have had absolutely no sleep for the last many days and today I started work at 8:00 AM with only 3 hour's sleep as I couldn't sleep when I went to bed last night.
After I opened up my office and handed out work to one of my assistants at 9am I had to go shopping with my mother then go to the branch office for a meeting at 1:00 PM. During the meeting I drank many huge mugs of coffee but had to fight so hard to stay awake! It wasn't like I was getting comfortable and dozing off; I just simply couldn't keep my eyes open! I had to keep shuffling around and blinking and scribbling on my notepaper to try to stop going to sleep! It was so hard...I never used to understand how people could fall asleep while driving but I totally understand now!
I am in the process of reducing some of the work load so that I have “normal” work hours. It’s kinda difficult to get a full night of sleep when one has to complete certain rush orders or beat a deadline. I noticed that when I usually get a few minutes of sleep, like a power nap it just rejuvenates me and drives away the cobwebs in the mind for awhile. Has this ever happened to you and how did you deal with it?
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