Productivity

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Productivity, something that most of us have been told we must be for most of our lives. Yet how does one actually be productive? This is something that we aren’t really taught in school, or if we have it has alluded most of us. 

Productivity is a measure of efficiency of a person completing a task. We often assume that productivity means getting more things done each day. Wrong. Productivity is getting important things done consistently.

I think the definition above is pretty close to what a lot of us might be feeling about productivity. It has been what I have thought about it. Yet the second part is the key. It's not about getting more things done, it is about getting important things done more consistently. 

I have been striving to find a way to accomplish this more often. I have tired bullet journaling. I have tried multiple tasks managers and project management tools. The thing that I am finding difficult with them, is that I don’t have the framework in place to utilize these tools more effectively. The other challenging thing is it can be difficult to use the tool. With leads to not using the tools and being right back were I started. 

So how does one find the framework and learn to uses these tools to be more productive. That can be the challenging part of all of this. It all depends on your skill level, how much you think learning the tool will help and how much you really want to do to be productive. Once you have a base framework for which tools to use and how to make them work for you. You will need to keep tweaking them and remember that you will need to adjusted them often to fit your needs at the time.

I found my framework from Christopher Lawley, he has been using just an iPad for the last 5 or so years. This appealed to me because I too only want to use an iPad for my main machine. So I watched a lot of his videos and downloaded a lot of the apps. Then I started using them and tweaking them to fit my needs and how I work. This is not perfect at the moment because I am still learning to use these tools. However, I am a lot closer than I was just a few months ago. 

So to be more productive, we must learn how to be productive, what are the important tasks that need to be completed, find the right tools for us and then build the framework needed to be productive. If you need help finding tools that might help you in this, please reach out. If you need help tweaking your current tools, feel free to drop me a line. 

As always, take care of yourself and each other!