If you are under loads of work stress and feel that your mind is revolting and refusing to think, better know that you need a break. The monotony of work and pressure can really bore you to death. That happens when your mind gets clogged and refuses to think. But heavy workload is no excuse for lower work quality as you are expected to be as creative as you were when you had lesser work pressure. So what do you do to keep your creativity intact while you handle more work pressure? Here are certain things that top executives of a company should know while fixing the goals of their subordinates.

1. All Work and No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy: Most of us have heard this old proverb that has stood the test of time and holds true even to this day. Today, corporate executives seem to be working 24 X 7 to meet deadlines and to stay in a competitive position in the market. The hiring firms cleverly announce some incentives and attractive perks that work as a bait to keep executives working day in and day out without sufficient relaxation. If you sum up the lifestyles of these executives you’ll find that they spend around 18-20 hours a day in the office and do not take any leave during the weekends also. Many top managers are of the wrong opinion that hard work enhances creativity but in reality, the opposite is true. Hard work might make you perfect at one job, but not enhance your creativity. On the contrary the mind is fatigued and can’t think. The remedy for this is to take planned short breaks so that your mind gets the time to relax and rejuvenate itself to meet new challenges.
2. Don’t Create False Urgency: Keeping your workers under pressure, even when there is really no urgency is a bad idea. You might think that you are working for the welfare of your company by keeping your workers on their toes always. But this is blundered thinking. When there is a genuine emergency, your workers might come forward to spend extra hours in the office, but they will not be willing to do so everyday. Even if they do under pressure they are going to get mentally fatigued which is not a very good sign for the prosperity of your company. When there is an opportunity, give people time to relax. They will be grateful to you and come back with tons of creative juices to make your work a success.
3. Tell Your Workers Beforehand What You Want Of Them: As a leader, you should devise and communicate strategies for handling crisis beforehand to your workers so that they are prepared for what is expected of them. For example you can say “for the next couple of weeks we need to spend four hours overtime in office to meet our deadlines.” Along with your workers you should also stay back and take up a bigger chunk of work than you usually do. Hold meetings only if they are necessary. Do not make a meeting mandatory for everyone unless absolutely necessary.
4. Find a Partner to Work With At the Time of Crisis: A friend in need is a friend indeed! This is the time you’ve got to work out a symbiotic relationship with a co-worker to ensure that none of you get stressed out with work. You can work out alternate cycles of work and relaxation so that when you are recreating yourself, you co-worker is working and vice versa. You can apply this strategy when you are on a holiday, or even when you are in office but need to just move out for sometime. If the co-worker is a junior, he’ll simply love the idea of developing his experience. You can also team up with your boss if he likes the idea.
5. Equip Your Office with Recreational Facilities: Do you know what some companies are doing to help their employees combat stress? Office campuses are built with plush greenery so that employees can take a walk, take a breath of fresh air and relax around the campus during lunch hours and other short breaks. Offices also have fitness spas, game rooms, music theatres and other recreational venues that workers who stay for long hours can use.

As a leader you should balance between work and recreation and set an example of how well both can be worked out. You should understand that your workers are your valuable assets. Don’t mistake them for commodities that can be used to extract the maximum because you pay them a price. Even machines need rest and human beings are human after all!

Dig deeper in what posts you write, TIMELY OR SCHEDULED POSTS?

Writing blogs is no easy task as you need to be very perfect about the knowledge that you are writing and it should be capable of attracting the reader’s mind. Balancing between work life and blogging life is quite a challenge as you have to dedicate thoroughly to the time that you are writing blogs. Blogging is all about experiencing and the things that you have already experienced in your life which you are sharing with your friends and readers online. Pre-written and scheduled posts over the blogging networks are always a good choice as they are ready to be posted any time and there is no kind of urgency. In my career I have experienced the hiccups I got while writing some timely posts it nearly used to make me restless with so much of urgency and orders from upper management, although now I am my own boss but writing nearly takes some peaceful time it doesn’t happens instantly as we think.

If you want to keep your blogging network live and kicking then you have to push in fresh content each day, and if possible may be more than 1 blog per day that will make your readers interested in your content, what better option we have then getting scheduled posts and pre-written content that is so much of advantage. There are many ways in which you can take out time to write quality content just taking out few hours daily, even it means an hour or 2 make sure that you are solely dedicated and concentrating on what you are writing. Monday is the day I solely call a writing day, its that time of the week when my mind is free of all tensions of the office, I set out on writing in the mornings till late afternoons I dedicate almost like 4 to 5 hours just writing, mornings give me an added idea the points I don’t want to miss out on. You can do the same by trying to write in the mornings, set your inner goals of writing particular number of articles each day, set your targets of 3 daily and slowly increase as you get the hand of it, make sure to write meaty articles that will make your readers interested.

As I said setting your targets just for one day helps throughout the week, pre written content is always helpful, I use the posts which I have written on Monday to post each day of the week that will give a fresh look to my posts daily. I post them as per the scheduled time that is just after midnight that will encourage early reading amongst the readers. Generally dedicating just one day per week is good so that later time of the week you are relaxed and you can better concentrate on other chores, as you start writing in the mornings you will get fresh ideas and wouldn’t get distracted. Its not just the content which I write on Mondays sets my time table to post during the whole week, sometimes in the middle of the week I do like to add some spicy comments or may be some article or links that will help others, you too can do the same that will encourage more people to come over your blogs. You can supplement your blog with Q&A, links, breaking news, reader discussion panels, other blogging networks, etc.

Most of the time we see on blogging networks, blogs are more time bound as per the given situation where one is going through something, may be an experience, or a lesson, or learning, etc. these are timely posts which do not require any pre written or scheduled posts, they are written on the spot. Some posts do require a peace time to be written where as some are such which instantly comes out and are one of the best, being aggressive is one feature you can vent out everything and people do take interest in reading the language you are writing, but never offend anyone please.

There are few blogs in which you can put suitably best combination of a timely posts as well as pre-written, it might sound like a weird thing some might put it as foolish but as per my experience I can state that it really depends on what type of blog you are raring to write and develop. Some blogs might attract more attention than others because the blog talks more on sensitive issue or may be a subject of national issue. Well, my intentions here are to put straight the “how to” of content writing I put the contents which are relevant, more specific and up to the mark most of the time you will see the scheduled posts which we write gives us an advantage where you don’t have time to put back some fresh content over the site. You can discuss with your readers about varied current issues pending, their take on some political event, or some celebrity death or anything.

Write the content which is very relevant to the topic you are writing on, don’t divert from your main topic, discuss the “tips” and “how to” always that will help your readers to gain knowledge and let them keep coming back to you to hear more of it. There are blogs which contain sensitive issue, take note to write them as solemnly as you could keep in mind not to offend anyone by name, caste, religion, creed or profession. You can put in some experiences, the things you feel about and moreover how you can contribute for a cause, this way you can win people’s heart not just for publicity but truly. I just want to state at the end of my writing, that there are no specific rules to write blogs, you have to be serious while writing it and take responsibility of your written text. Your blog is your own and you can do whatever you like on your blog, if you are a new breaker, then wreck it, write timely posts and post it over the sites and get spontaneous response.