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Ignore Anyone Who Tells You There Is Only One Way To Be Productive
Getting things done can be hard enough without taking the last shred of fun out of them
Do you know what’s frustrating? (Besides figuring out how to grow basil successfully, which is driving me a little bonkers right now.) Being bombarded by emails from people who insist that they have the end-all-be-all answers to being a productivity whiz who can, and I sadly quote, “get more done in less time.”
Which honestly makes my stomach knot up every time I hear it.
Yes, I wrote a book titled DONE, but I never, in 292 pages, said, “do this to get more done in less time.” (I double-checked to make sure.) With everything I have to take care of each day, the idea of cramming more into my 24-hours so I can get EVEN more done exhausts me. And I know I’m not alone.
Productivity is how you define it
Every day I see and hear more and more coaches, trainers, and middle-aged guys named Mort forcefully pushing the idea that being productive 24/7 is the only way to exist. That you have to give up on having any shred of fun (as you define it) in your life.
Their favorite words seem to be: “you HAVE to.” And they preach it like it is the gospel…
