About Productivity

All this time we keep hearing about the important of productivity and so-called productivity hacks.

I seriously tried to absorb all those info like sponge(bob), yet, when the time is not ready, when I'm not ready, none of these productivity hacks helped. Yeah everyone says executives and successful people meditate and wake up 5 am in the morning to work on the most important tasks, read a ton of books and work out regularly. We know the drill, we all do. Yet, how many of use truly, follow those hacks?

We all know the important of sleep, and how sleeping earlier is good for your brain and health in general, yet, how many people can ACTUALLY sleep before 10 pm, consecutively, for just a month?

My point is, all these productivity hacks are absolutely useless. Stop reading them over and over again, because you'd just be wasting time. When you're not ready to absorb those info like sponge(bob), you're just not gonna be ready. Yeah sure, you might be able to change your routine for the first, one, two, or three days, with your initial burst of motivation. But, how about after that? Do you think you'd still be able to continue after that, and make those productivity hacks part of your routine? I highly doubt it. Been there, done that.

So what should you do? You may ask.

My perspective is that forcing yourself to change a habit would never, ever be successful. All these people who turned their life over, had a tipping point moment. Let it me some horrible health issues, a car accident, a loved one passing away, etc. It's something major. It's something external that pushed them to make the change in their life. If nothing major happens in your life, you're not going to have enough motivation to make the change. Some people lose 15 pounds in a month due to a breakup. The 15 pounds is their drastic change, and the tipping point is the breakup. Do you think they'd be able to lose that 15 pounds without the breakup, the tipping point? Nah, I doubt it.

Instead of reading all these "chicken soup stories for your soul", or those motivational stories and memoirs, why don't you spend the time to do whatever the hell you want to do. Let it be scrolling through reddit aimlessly, or binge-watching Netflix, or scrolling through the end of your Instagram feed. There's no shame in that. Really. I mean, don't you already do those things even with the mindset of creating the chance in your life everyday? Don't you already try so hard to stay away from "bad habits", but find yourself falling into those "traps" each and every day? So, what's the point of giving yourself feelings of guilt and shame, if these "traps" are just meant to be there, meant for your to fall into them before the tipping point of your life?

If you're not ready, you just won't be. So quit trying. Quit feeling bad. Quit giving yourself guilt. Just live life as it is and be as happy as you can.