A Highly Counter-Intuitive Thing About Productivity I’ve Noticed
The busier you are, the freer you are
When my full-time job started, contrary to what I expected, my writing process actually got easier.
In just the first half of the weekends, I’m able to get my entire writing done. And the weekdays are for leisurely editing and publishing. Earlier, I would sit staring at my laptop all day, every day, and still produce the same output.
To top it all off, I have a lot more leisure time than I used to. Not to mention the fact that I’ve become more consistent with working out as well. In simple words — I’ve become busier and freer at the same time.
As paradoxical as it sounds, the lesser time you have, the more productive you can be. This is due to Parkinson’s Law which states:
Work expands to fill the time allotted to it
In our daily lives, we all experience this law’s effects — be it the assignment you got done at a breakneck speed just before the deadline or the article you leisurely rewrote the entire day only to end up with the initial version.
In my case, with my job devouring a sizeable chunk of my time, I was forced to eliminate all the “fluff” from my writing such as intermittent YouTube…
