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Productivity Shame — the Nagging Feeling That You’ve Not Done Enough
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I was tired. It was the peak of the pandemic, and everyone was working from home. Even the kids were attending school online.
My day was spent in meetings, getting kids on and off Zoom calls, quick snacks and multiple cups of coffee.
It felt like the number of meetings had exploded. Every 5-minute conversation at the water cooler/coffee machine had now turned into a 30-minute meeting on my calendar.
By the end of the day, I still had emails to reply to and had barely started on the presentation, which was due in three days. I sat down for another hour and made some progress by researching and creating the agenda slide.
At midnight, I hit the bed, physically exhausted. But my mind was still racing with the nagging feeling that the day wasn’t very productive. I berated myself for not making better to-do lists, or maybe I could have tried the Pomodoro technique. Perhaps I needed to set stricter boundaries with my kids regarding interruptions.
