Busy? Achieve more with less effort.

Ashley Mwanza

PRODUCTIVITY is about using less effort to accomplish things. Productive work is positive, relaxed and sustainable. Life should not be stressful and difficult. It should be full of energy and clarity, focus and momentum especially but not exclusively work.

Think of throwing a stone into a pond. The water responds to the stone in a perfectly appropriate way. The water does not move too much and neither does it move less than enough. It does what it has to do and then returns to what it was.Unfortunately, most of us do not work like water.

We are full of stress and anxiety, pressed for time, overwhelmed by details, and bogged down by worry and nagging chores left undone. We do too much and too little, often at the same time. We are frantically busy but we unconsciously waste time. There’s the common phrase; “I’ve been busy”, but you have been busy doing what exactly?