Being Productive Doesn’t Make You More Valuable

Do we make productivity into a gospel? Being busy doesn’t make you more valuable. Checking boxes or being prolific doesn’t make you a better person.

Productivity is not bad, but it isn’t the gospel. I’m currently reading a good book, but it almost implies that success is a hustle that includes sleep deprivation, pushing your limits, and learning to live with the stress of all that. I say there is an in between. Rather than defining ourselves by how much we do, let’s take a different approach that helps us to know if productivity has become our new gospel.  

Three questions to ask yourself about productivity 

1. What is my motivation? 


2. How often am I willing to pause productivity to be with people?  


3. What is the cost of my drive to produce? 

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