If You Can Conquer These 5 Things, Then You'll Be So Much More Productive

by N/A, 8 years ago | 2 min read

Being productive is simultaneously the most rewarding, yet cumbersome thing that exists in this thing we call life. You can easily get a high from completing a task you have to get through, but at the same time, doing that task can be very grueling to get through. Thus, the great debate: "Should I do this thing and feel good about myself, or should I just kind of chill out and feel pretty good about that?"

Time to decide.

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1. Your endorphins aren't pumping, because you're uncomfortable and sit at a desk for far too long

To be truly productive and creative, you need those endorphins pumping. You could find a more comfortable place to work, or get up and walk around every so often. That would really up your productivity, or you could just chill and do nothing. That's pretty relaxing too–both mind and body.

2. Your inner voices are distracting you from getting things done, because all they want to talk about is anything else besides what's at hand

Shushing these voices is the key to productivity, because you need your mind zeroed in on whatever it is that you need to be doing. If you can't block those voices out you'll never be able to stay on task, and thus will be very unproductive. Additionally, if you can't shut those voices out, you may have something more worrisome than being unproductive.

3. Your incessant need to check social feeds is keeping you from doing anything of worth

Even though you don't care about anything you're seeing and it's rather obvious that it's worthless to be consuming it, you just keep doing it. You know you should be doing your task and being productive, but there's something so much more rewarding about not doing those things, and just mindlessly scrolling a news feed, isn't there?

4. You're attempts to multitask in order to save yourself time later prove to be counterproductive

Instead of focusing on one thing at a time, you try to just knock out a bunch of things all at once. It sounds like the most productive thing you could do, because you're doing so much, right? Wrong. Multitasking is actually just half-ass-tasking. You may as well do nothing, because that's what you're doing.

5. Your daily production is low, mostly because you take so long to get your day started

You could have a highly productive day by simply starting your day sooner. The only problem with that is, that takes away all your chilling time (i.e. the beginning of the day up until lunch). Starting your day after lunch is nice and much more relaxing. Although if you were to get started sooner, you'd be more productive and possibly feel better about yourself/your career, diving into all that commotion of a morning is really hard.