How often do you think—’I should have accomplished more’?
Are you devaluing what you DID get done, just because you maybe could have squeezed in little additional work?
Take a moment to think of a recent situation when you questioned your output. When you felt like you’d missed an opportunity to check off another item on your To Do list. Here’s my big question: Did you consider HOW you were going to achieve that?
Productivity is a lot about the HOW and not so much about the end results. (Don’t get me wrong, end results are awesome, but you need to focus on the HOW to get to the end.)
We are humans, not machines. Too often we look at output, not process, and decide we can achieve more. What we need to remember is we’re working with a body, not a computer program.
It’s crucial to recognize we need to start with a reasonable plan and check in with ourselves—is it do-able?
Or are we asking ourselves to behave robotically (remind yourself, you’re a human not a robot).
Don’t forget— all people are humans. Remember we are ALL working with their mortal bodies, making good and not so good decisions. Sometimes it’s best to just think ‘oh yea, they’re working with what they’ve got’… maybe that’s the top of their current game. Maybe that’s the current MAX setting for that human.
They aren’t, and won’t become… a robot.
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