Getting Productive
Do More. Stress Less. The Art of Joyful Productivity
Life is a lot different today than it was 100 years ago. Nowadays most foks are in a kind of low grade overwhelm. You have more information, more requests, more commitments than you ever have before. You have people to call, letters to write, email to read and answer. You have errands to run, projects to move further along or even to start. At the end of your day, “are you tired?”. If you have long to-do lists and you never ever seem to get through all the things on your list or you are not getting a sense of completion and fulfillment in your projects… then perhaps it’s time for a little joyful productivity.
What is Joyful Productivity? It’s getting things done amplified by meaningfulness, purpose, energy and just plain feeling good at the end of the day.
Being joyfully productive means having everything in harmony in our lives. It means being clear about what we want, it means managing our energy as much as our time and it means being joyful about what we do choose to do.
If there are things in your life that you want to do and you are just not getting around to them, here are some keys as to what will help you do more with less stress.
1. Get Control of Your Life
Set up the time, the space and tools that can help you eliminate feelings of overwhelm and frustration. Not knowing where to begin or how to do things can be real stoppers. Taking a few days to set up a system of habits or rituals can have amazing benefits. One example can be limiting your buckets. One calendar, one reference system, one action system. The truth is we often we create and maintain extra buckets. Limiting your buckets and keeping everything in one place alone will create a sense of ease and peace that you perhaps never imagined possible.
2. Know What You Want and How it is Specifically Meaningful for You
Unclear objectives are one of those things that can really derail you. Clarifying your own personal objectives, identifying those things that are truly worthwhile and have meaning for you can attract the things that you really value most. This requires some lazering in and narrowing down which is a new kind of focus for most folks. This may even mean getting real and perhaps letting go a few things that you are currently doing now that are no longer truly meaningful.
3. Manage Your Energy and Yourself
The truth is most of us could learn how to manage ourselves just a little bit better. Increasing your awareness of where you slow down or stop being productive because of inner conflicts is just one way to manage your energy. When you have an ambivalence or inner conflict around something it becomes a block to being able to choose what to do next with full congruence. Aligning your actions with your meaningful objectives, values, personal needs can lead you to feeling better inner harmony. When you start feeling better; things will start to happen for you.
4. Leverage Your Natural Talents and Gifts
When you do what you love and find ways to let go of, delegate or minimize everything else and your productivity will soar. You may be doubtful that you could manage this one, but it is truly is possible.
5. Create Environments that Inspire and Nurture You
Environments that are full of obstacles or energy drains can hold you back from obtaining your meaningful objectives. Your environments include things like your physical space, your relationships and even your thoughts. To learn more about how your environments may be holding you back, take a short online self-assessment.
If you have things you want to do but you are just not getting to them, it may be a sign that you could use some Joyful Productivity.
Benefits:
- Get More Out Of Every Business Day. Get More Out Of Every Moment.
- Be true to yourself while engaging in activities that align with your own inner focus
- Do more than just inner work. Get down to definite action that aligns with your own meaningful objectives
- Tap into your own inner aliveness and joy as you work using your strengths while moving toward your desired goals.
- Know in each moment if you are “on task” or just wasting energy
Learn how to:
- Increase your “Focus Factor” by mapping out a personal meaningful activities map
- Scan your environments for things that hold you back from getting things done and then remove those tolerations!
- Free your mind using specialized techniques for organizing and collecting information
- Get Real! And to use the power of choice to do even less while achieving more
- Distinguish different types of work and activities and then create an action strategy that works best for you
- Design your own environments so that they give you maximum energy and inspiration
