Stop Doing ‘Busywork’ And Start Doing Important Work Instead
If there’s one important realization I’ve had over the last few months, it’s that real productivity is not about the number of things you get done or the number of hours you work. Nor is it (per se) about doing your current tasks faster and more efficient..
Rather, real productivity is about consistently spending the majority of your time on your most valuable and most important tasks. Real productivity is about continuously identifying your priorities, and being able to tackle them both efficiently and of high quality. It’s about eliminating or outsourcing the ‘busywork’ so you can save your mental resources, time and energy for that what’s truly important.
Yet, we as humans are drawn towards complexity. We often make things a lot harder and confusing than they actually need to be — and we overlook simplicity because it isn’t exciting enough.
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” — Warren Buffett
What Is Busywork Actually?
Busywork can be defined as all those tasks and activities that we spend a lot of time and energy on, even though they don’t significantly contribute to the achievement of…
