Are You Productive or Busy?
Don’t confuse busy with productive. Busy is running around, touching many things. Productive is heading towards your mark, your destination. You may feel productive by crossing off things from to-do list. But how often is that to-do list filled with meaningless errands and tasks. Things that you can delegate. Things you can have delivered. Things you can hire someone for, potentially. Or have your older children or partner do.
Being productive is like walking a straight line towards where you want or need to go. Busy is frantically running around, in a circle or as the expression goes, a hamster wheel. It’s an important distinction. Busy can burn you out. Busy often doesn’t have the meaningful, purposeful results, or emotional loop.
Busy is easy, it’s often in front of us. Productive, despite it being a straight line, is much harder to stay with. Mainly because the results from being productive are not as immediate as being busy.
Don’t be proud of busy. It’s usually you doing stuff that does not give you life or energy in return. It simply just sucks it all away from you. Now, if you are infact busy in the pursuit of something you want, it’s time to change your mindset. How can you switch from busy (meaningless) to productive (meaningful)? When you produce something, it’s rewarding and the labor bears fruits. When you're busy, there is nothing after. Just another task. Another errand. Another project assigned to you by your boss.
Busy is not a badge of honor. Stop wearing it. Stop showing it off.
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Thought Provoking Questions : How can you switch from busy (meaningless) to productive (meaningful)?
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