Living Productivity
I’ll warn you ahead of time - today’s post will be a little existential. See, I usually write about productivity, life hacking, healthy goal setting, and all the things we need and want to improve our lives.
But I ask you today, what is a life? What is productivity? I mean, we aren’t machines created to get things done, right?
Well, we shouldn’t be anyway.
Then, what are we anyway? As a species, what is our purpose? To get things done for the sake of getting things done? To leave the world a little better for everyone else?
Really, what will people remember of us when we’re gone? Our checked off to-do lists? Our accolades? Our fame/wealth/money/status?
Or is it our warm smile, so freely given? The things we did for others? The way we made others feel? The joy we found and shared in our own lives and in the lives of our friends and family?
I ask you, friends, what is productivity? Surely it doesn’t exist for productivity’s sake.
I think its purpose is to allow us freedom – freedom from worry about the minutiae and bureaucracy of the world. Freedom to have more time to do what we want to do. Freedom to leave the world a little better for everyone else - to warm our fellow humans with our smiles, to openly care for our loved ones, and to release our worries for long enough to find joy in our existence.
And, to be quite frank, getting more done often means choosing wisely to do less.
Because life isn’t really about getting more done.
But, perhaps we get more done so that we can live more life.