There is one word that you should seriously remove from your goals – productivity! Remove it, delete it, trash it, recycle bin it, burn it, destroy it; just get it out of your mind! GOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNEEEE! This so called ‘productive’ is one of the things that will destroy you and your goals forever. You see, the problem is that people mistake it with the true message, and it somehow manages to get locked up into their lives; this is DISASTEROUS.
Productivity is actually non-existent, it’s just a way for employers to get more work out of their employees. Here’s why:
- You might spend months preparing for an upcoming exam, organizing your time and all, and then fail it big time when your time came. (You studied the wrong thing)
- You might devote months of your time to your blog only to discover that what you did really didn’t help you. (Wrong techniques)
- You might schedule all your time, so that you can spend as much time as you can with your girlfriend, only to find you break up with her shortly. (Wrong planning)
That’s productivity at its finest, making the most use of your time so that you can head down the worst possible path and not even realize it. Devote your entire education towards trying to aim for the highest paying job without realizing that your goals and ambitions are on a much smaller scale.
Productivity is the one word that if you really stick to it will only lead you into a real mess. Just because you make your time perfectly organized so that you can out put a ‘product’ as the word defines, doesn’t mean that what you’ve devoted your time to is for a good thing. There, are more important questions to be asked.
Kill productivity, aim for being pro-active!
Instead of organizing your time so that you can do the most things in a day, forget organization and focus on the things that really matter to you.
You’re probably thinking about how I’ve just managed to slip myself into a huge mess – and everyone is now disagreeing with me? There is a reason as to why we should never aim to be productive, but rather focus on being pro-active. Instead of focusing on the things that are not important in your life, focus on the things that are damn important, and thrash them into the every you.
- Don’t look for what will get you the highest grade – look for what will fulfill your life.
- Find out how you can leave your impression on the world, permanently – never let your existence fizzle down to an ember.
- Focus on how you can dominate what interests you the most and leave the most amazing mark on it.
These are the questions you need to ask yourself!
This is what being pro-active is all about, finding out the things that are truly important to you. What do you want to do that will fulfill your life and leave your mark in the world? Focus on the things in your life that follow this principle, AND DON’T LET THE OTHER THINGS SLIP IN!
If you focus on the things that are most important to you, they will automatically fill out your day and before you know it, you’ll be making the most of your time so that you can enjoy those things that are important. The things you don’t care about, you have to ‘organize in’ or otherwise you wouldn’t do them, this is how things work.
(Btw, I’m not just saying you should throw away all your things like your job because you don’t care about them – but that leads onto my next point.)
Cut out all of your options and throw them away!
One of the books that I’ve been reading lately is, “Think and grow rich,” a modernized adaption on the old book by Napoleon Hills, that has been re-written by Karen McCreadie.
One of the major points that are talked about in the text is how the only way we can ever get results is to cut off all of our lifelines and just go for it. I’ll use this as an example (sorry It’s not directly from the book, I just couldn’t be bothered writing it all in xD ):
Bill Gates greatest skill is to give people what they want. Bill Gates didn’t have an operating system to sell but told IBM he did. Paul Allen, Microsoft’s co-founder knew of where he could get an operating system just across town.
You can read the full story here if you want: http://www.freeenterpriseland.com/BOOK/KILDALL.html
Bill gates cut off all of his links and just jumped in to it. By cutting out the things that you rely on the most, you are forcing yourself into taking big risks and making the jump. This is the only true way to be successful. Being productive only means that you’ve organized your time to reach a result; rather, we need to be proactive and put emphasis on the things that are important, take the jump and just go for it.
Sometimes the best thing to do is to make that jump and break away from what we hold onto the most. Quitting your job, forces you to go into the online world, this is always an important thing to remember.
Do you focus on being pro-active without putting emphasis on productivity? Do you ever let your interests slip you away into a full day of enjoying yourself? How often do you throw away your ability to retreat so you HAVE to do something? Or do you just let the things that don’t really matter to you, get in the way of your life?
SOURCE : http://ideasbubble.com/2011/02/irrelevance-of-being-productive.html
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