4 Traits of Incredibly Productive People

The art of sustainable productivity

I had an article go viral last week.

It made my teeth hurt. I do what I always do when I don’t know what to do. I took my dog out for a walk and watched her chase the ball as if it was the best thing in the world. It calmed me.

My thoughts were funny. They went like this:

‘What if my writing goes somewhere? What if I make a lot of money from this writing thing? What if my writing dreams actually come true?’

After that walk I calmed down and got some perspective but it made me think a lot about how we think of success.

When I think of the biggest productivity drains I think of 4 things:

So by default if you can kick each of these in the butt, you will most likely triple your productivity. Well that’s my logic anyway. Let’s get into it.

This is one of the biggest opportunities in productivity.

Time spent deciding on something can be incredibly counterproductive. You can spent time thinking about what to do with your day, it goes something like this:

All of this time is spent doing neither of the things. I’ve done it in the past. Spent an age trying to work out how to spend my time. To get to the end of the decision making process to find I have no time left.

Here’s my rewrite: spend time on the things that make you feel good. I’ve never regretted sitting down and pumping out a few articles so I often default to that.

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