Emotional Needs vs. Productivity

Productivity

Sometimes productivity is seen as the ultimate goal or as an even greater prize than actually completing your tasks. Everybody wants to be productive and work without taking breaks, but most of the time they see this as an impossible thing to do.

Actually, it’s not that hard to be productive. The secret lays in a bit (more) of personal development and understanding.

In order to be productive you have to have a certain mindset. But usually if you just tell yourself “Right now I will sit down at my desk and work for 1 hour”… you will get bored or tired after just a couple of minutes. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏’𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏’𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞: 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬.

Emotional needs

The key to productivity is being focused on work, besides creating a nice working space that motivates you.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞?

Right now, I am talking from experience. Not long ago I went through a stressful situation. I was aware of the tension that was building up inside of me: I needed rest and relaxation but I was terribly anxious that if I do this, I will not have enough time to solve everything I had to do.

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭? 𝐍𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐈!

Finding your balance

𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑰 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌. 𝑰 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒙 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕, 𝒔𝒐 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒚 𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒔.

After this, I got to work. And let me tell you how good everything went!

Next time you find yourself in a situation like this, always choose to rest. Afterwards you will be so much more motivate and productive your anxiety will go away in no time!