"Quite Possible" > "A Sure Thing"

I am working on an article with a group that is entitled:

“What Comes After Productivity?”

The goal of the article is to discuss what a person should do after they have maximized their current productivity and performance practices.

What do you do when you feel that all the information you read is repeating itself and you don’t know what to do next?

This is a problem faced by many high-achievers after they realize success and begin to feel a plateau.

In this newsletter, I wanted to share a glimpse of what I think about this topic and how you can avoid falling victim to this phenomenon.

Enjoy

There is no faultless, unifying strategy to perfect productivity.

The silver bullet does not exist.

Sorry.

What does exist is a compilation of tools that can help an individual’s life be better aligned with their goals to bring about the results they desire.

Time blocking, Pomodoro techniques, journaling, Kanban boards, or participating in an agile framework are all valuable and useful tools for the end user who enters the query “How can I be more productive?”

The fallacy of this search is that while great options can be presented, only you can determine what is best for you and your progress to your results.

Only through experimentation can you find the pathway that works best for you and your goals.

The modern Western focus on optimization in forward progress has labeled the spirit and mindset of experimentation as wasted energy.

It is much easier to apply a non-changing, non-adapted “expert” viewpoint to your unique situation and improve your productivity by 20% than to go through the complicated process of trial and error of several different approaches that will increase your productivity by 50%.

We prioritize the quick, easy, thoughtless, accountability-less medium gain over the long-term, difficult, reflective, responsible exponential gain.

If we do not trial and test what the experts develop, we offload our thinking to “those who know better”.

We lose our autonomy and innovation as we contort ourselves into a generic, predetermined view of what a productive method of operating looks like.

We are then disheartened when we don’t get the results we look for and blame ourselves and possibly give up when the truth is that:

“It’s not that the tools don’t work. You are just a plumber in a woodworking shop.” 

This is just an excerpt of a larger article.

Do you ever feel like your productivity is plateauing?

Or are you still trying to build more productive habits?

Let me know what you think.

In Mastery,

Matthew

P.S. I have a few coaching slots available. If you are interested in working together to achieve your goals before 2023 is over or getting a head start on 2024, book a call with me here.

I would love to help.