Are Your Productivity Beliefs Making You Less Productive?
Your productivity beliefs are developed as a direct result of your mindset around time, value creation, and success.
Have you ever taken the time to really scrutinize what these beliefs are, or where they come from? If you took even an hour out of your day to sit down and think about what time really is, and how it relates to your unique lifestyle, you may come up with some shocking truths.
What’s your definition of productivity?
What story are you telling yourself about value? About how much your time is worth? About what it means to be successful?
These stories have been increasingly wedged into our subconscious minds for the last century. That’s why you might feel guilty at work or home if you’re not “doing enough” on a given day.
This conditioning pushes us to find more ways to get things done… but at what expense?
Here are a few questions to get you thinking about your mindset, which is the foundation for all that you do.
- Does being busy make you feel valuable?
- Who do you look to as an example of “success?”
- Where do your ideas of work ethic come from?
“We aren’t machines, and I think it’s time we stop working like one.”
How Your Productivity Beliefs Affect Your Creativity
Creativity is not linear. For the most part, it's not very predictable either.
Sure, you can assess and optimize your own personal patterns but you can never really know when or where your next best idea will come to you.
If you haven't created empowering productivity beliefs, you'll never feel caught up. You'll only take half of your paid vacation. And even when you're "not working," you'll still feel stressed out.
You'll never really know what balance feels like.
This is a grim world to live in. Do you really want to chain yourself to the idea that getting more done is the end all be all answer to a more balanced life?
"If only I could finish XYZ," you say to yourself, "then I'll finally get a chance to breathe and I can start to relax."
The problem is, that's not how productivity really works.
That's why MTG advocates mindset and skillset to be the most promising solution to your productivity problems. When you're operating system is running smoothly, everything flows with ease.
But when your systems are failing, there tends to be a lot of friction as a result.
To improve time management, you need to start from the ground up.
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