On Productivity

There is a place beyond ‘having to’, ‘forcing yourself’, needing an extra coffee ‘to concentrate’, writing extensive ‘to do lists’, needing more ‘getting stuff done’ strategies. It is a place you have experienced extensively but not necessarily consistently and the more you chase it, the more elusive it becomes. It’s a true candidate for the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: the more you look for it, the less likely you are to find it. It is true productivity, the intersection of great wellness (fitness for job), doing what you want to do (appropriate focus) and accepting that although you can do anything, you can’t do everything (finesse and letting some stuff go). True productivity=fitness times focus times finesse.  It takes courage to get to that place of true productivity where you rarely ever need to think the word ‘productivity’ again. But it’s a damn sight easier than decades of looking for the next time management breakthrough.