Living in a digitalized world it seems like the classic hardcover book quickly loses popularity. And for reasons outlined many times by the average iPad or Kindle junkie we are, one by one, led to believe that it’s best to throw whatever copy we have in our closet and start downloading books, storing them in our hard drives, tablets or whatnot.
Have you ever watched a golf match? You know the fundamentals at least, right? You place the ball, take your swing with the club and see if it gets anywhere near the hole.
And here is the interesting thing about golf – Changing the angle under which you hit the ball reflects by changing where the ball lands by couple of meters or even more. Interesting, huh?
One of the biggest anchors holding you back when it comes to both productivity and creating the lifestyle you want to have is W4W (work for work’s sake). It is a form of procrastinating and laziness, reinforced by years and years of habits and society defined dogmas which value busyness before productivity and meaningful work.
There are many schools of thought and quite as many methodologies when productivity is concerned. Giving a quick glimpse, one would guess that it’s about getting the things done in, if possible, half the time. Nine out of ten times he would be right on the spot.
And while this view has some merit, productivity can be in fact understood into quite more stratified and robust ways.
Bearing in mind the rate at which people tilt towards personal development in any form, and considering the fact that this new philosophy or way of life percolates more and more by the day, I’m sure you will see more buzz around the subject.
When personal development is brought to the lines of vague rhetoric the effect it produces is rather hard to label. And with thousands of books on the shelves, and more coming out on daily basis, this is the truth for the industry – it is taken more seriously than turkey gobble only by a razor.