Work can be a joy or a drain. Finding the right balance at work can help shift it towards the former.

One thing to beware is being too helpful at work. While this may sound for many like a way of life and only a positive act, it can have negative side effects.

Those you overly help can become accustomed to such help, and can turn to you more often for more trivial help. If they thought about it they would realise that they could easily find the answer themselves, however with you there as a security blanket they don’t need to use their own initiative as much.

In turn this can lead to a decline in your own performance as you are interrupted (with apologies, or course) often enough to ensure you never get the mental “run up” needed to conquer challenging and complex tasks towards your own lines of death, or that you cannot keep all facets of your task in mind.