Maybe It’s Enough Just Being the Person That You Are
Maybe, just maybe, we can make room to boost our productivity by not being so God damn productive. A simple Google search yields over 1.6 results for productivity. That’s 1,600,000,000 just to be redundant.
Make a super efficient green smoothie with your NutriBullet.
Be the most constructive in your exercise with a 10-minute HITT workout.
And yes that one-time sacred act of sex can be weaponized so you can be more effective, you guessed it, at fucking work.
The conflict between doing and not-doing, between leisure and non-leisure, need not exist. Because like any system of energy it depends on the tension between opposites. Whether baking banana bread for your family, busting out a client presentation, or breaking away from it all — what matters is how you do it.
Action and non-action can both be effortless.
What are we willing to sacrifice in the name of productivity? If we stay true to ourselves and our nature — we can see that much of our busyness is simply because we don’t know how to be still. Worse yet, is how idleness is rarely viewed as a virtue.
Sometimes it’s not about the doing.
Salad-making doesn’t need to be an effective undertaking.
Instagram doesn’t have to convert to jack shit.
And this blog post doesn’t need any claps —because it wrote me.
When we’re in line with who are, in sync with the rhythm of life, the myth of productivity is revealed. And the truth of less is more can be lived.
There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are.
—James A. Garfield
True that Mr. President.
And on that note, I don’t know about you but I have a Sunday to attend to.
You can learn to be less productive by grabbing my monthly digest right here and then forgetting to read it :)
