#07 - Here's What You Need to Know About Being Productive

Flawed advice on how to be more productive is literally everywhere. It's making most people to think of living a productive life as an all round the clock activity.

Examples of such (flawed) advice include:

–If you want to get a good grade, you must read twelve hours through the night.

– If you want to build that mansion and buy that car, you must work hard non-stop.

– If you want to reach your full potential, you must push yourself to the extreme.

The list could go on and on, but then, isn't that just the problem?

Have you paused to think if trying too hard is the problem? Inasmuch as being productive requires hard-work, it can be suicidal if one tries too much or pushes to the extreme. Human beings are not machines. Even machines need periodical breaks in order to function optimally.

The human system needs break too. Working so hard  on a task without recess or intermittent breaks could be compared to a dead sentence.

You need break in order to revitalize your thought process. You need break in order to relax, and have new ideas flowing through your mind. You need break in order to stay organized. In fact, you need break in order to stay mentally fit.

Not having intermittent breaks when working hard on a particular task will only lead to a grand state of uninterestedness, which could bleed-over to frustration, exhaustion, dispiritedness and unhappiness amongst many others.

The only way to avoid so is to reorient your mind on how you go about executing tasks. You need to know what works for you. Don't follow the bandwagon and end up hurting yourself.

Do what works for you. You are different from others. Fact of the matter is, what works for Mr X might not necessarily work for you.