Productivity is Overrated
Just be consistent
‘You need to be productive to be successful.’
‘You can only do this if you can do X things in Y hours.’
‘You’d be able to achieve this if you can finish that in Z days.’
This what we have heard daily from ‘motivational’ speakers, ‘self-made’ entrepreneurs, ‘social-media’ influencers, and other ‘successful’ people.
I think this what has left most of us chasing an ideal state in our life, which most of us cannot do so.
As a human being, burnout, stress, and a ‘feeling to do nothing’ are real. It’s really important to consider these situations while planning anything.
Maybe if you are thinking of a robot, it’d be understandable for it not to be tired, but a human being has this exhausted state. No one can work non-stop and be productive every time.
Our mental situation depends on many things, and this is what decides how, why, and when we should work.
“You can’t improve if you don’t know what you’re doing wrong.”
This is what we have been doing wrong. Being extremely productive, attentive every time, and working like machines has been highly fetishized.
Instead, what we need to do is to be consistent. Whatever you want to do, do it consistently. If you can follow a good streak of it for a while, you’ll see improvements.
Then based upon those improvements, you can further make an informed decision about what you should do next.
At least, it’s better than running after something that you are never able to follow and achieve while still feeling ashamed of it.
Next time, if you work on something, try to do it consistently, not productively.
Why?
Because productivity is not real.
