If I’m about to define productivity I will say, first and foremost, that it is a state of mind. No software, no application, no nothing can really influence our actions if we are not in the productive flow sort to speak.
And trying to identify and pinpoint the exact ingredient which puts us into this continuous flow of productivity, some things become obvious.
Every lifestyle change, no matter how inchoate, started by deciding upon how to differently conduct things in life. The biggest changes thus occur when one is ready to thoroughly rethink how he spends his energy. Applying an analogy, it will be like changing the angle of hitting the golf ball which will in turn change the landing destination of the ball by dozens of yards.
It’s hard to describe how I feel about personal development becoming the new black. On the one hand it is obviously pleasing to see people paying attention to becoming better by the day, while on the other, seeing how personal development alienates one person from another, as a concept, it easily becomes less than savory.
Being a productivity junkie you have probably fought against the 24 hour time frame time and again. How to get more things done, how to enjoy more results, yet still having the time to enjoy a little leisure on the side, still having the chance to pursue things that are not at all related with time management and constant improvement.
And giving the length of one day, 24 hours that is, we are unaware of the fact that time is all we have. We have plenty of it, in fact. And let me repeat myself as to stress the point – plenty of it!
If you share a statistician’s obsession with charts, you will come to notice that every long term success depends almost entirely on applying what works time and again over a long period of time. The long term concerns itself with the habits, dedication, extended motivation and drive to act. It is often times tightly linked…