You Were Never That Productive, To Begin With

It’s time to pretend like we aren’t all slacking a little bit.

I’m starting to enjoy these quick spur-of-the-moment blogs I’ve been writing. This is another realization I’ve come to accept: we aren’t productive in the ideal sense as much as we think.

And you shouldn’t be hard on yourself for that.

I’ve noticed every single post about how improving working conditions means better productivity. Look, the research proves a lot of this shit about working from home, vacation, etc. I believe these lovely things are making you work a realistic amount.

Hold on, did you plan to get more work done after a vacation or work from home on any given day? Or did you just hit the ground running on what you were doing already?

I’m starting to find in myself that I wasn’t that productive. I just had time off in between work I was going to do. So, I’d do more of that work since I’m going fresh, but I don’t skyrocket productivity or increase output. I’d equate my productivity to doing school work at the last second because I procrastinated it.

Yes, time off helps, and not having to commute helps. However, I think these are just delays in productivity or roadblocks to being productive, not increasing it.