The 4 Signs of Productivity Anxiety and How to Tackle Them
Productivity anxiety can give us mental discomfort — an icky feeling that seems impossible to shake — but there is hope for getting through it!
Productivity anxiety is an increasingly prevalent form of anxiety in which one feels physically and/or psychologically stressed when they do not live up to the self-imposed threshold of productivity they have for themselves.
In an increasingly competitive, fast-paced world, it is becoming easier to fall into the trap that we aren’t doing enough, or that we “should be” doing more.
But that is only a trap that the mind puts up to keep us caught in a cycle of inadequacy, or feeling that no matter how much effort we put in to improve our performance, we still aren’t good enough.
Productivity anxiety can also be seen as the perpetual feeling of never doing enough; no matter how many hours you put in at your job, no matter how many projects and presentations you ace in your classes, productivity anxiety gives sufferers this nagging feeling that they aren’t good enough unless they are in the midst of working toward a set, predefined target.
