Thursday, 9.22pm
Sheffield, U.K.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. – Franz Kafka
Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame had a quote about working smart rather than working hard which I am going to slice and serve up for a different flavour.
Manage your energy, not your time. People who manage their energy get happy and rich. People who manage their time get tired.
When I was younger everything was important. Productivity mattered. Being productive was about moving paper, about getting things done. About ticking off everything on the list.
At a certain stage in life that’s a good thing. When you’re young the most important thing is to be reliable. If people can rely on you they will give you more to do, and the more you do the more you learn, and the more you learn the more people can rely on you to do the right thing.
It’s a virtuous cycle.
When you start you say yes to everything. Later in life you start to realise that everything doesn’t matter equally. Some things are more important than others and the skill you need is not to get things done but to work out what’s worth doing.
And I don’t think worth is all about money.
In fact, taking money into consideration is the wrong way to do anything.
In my culture, there are four ways to get peace of mind.
You can act. You can pray. You can meditate. And you can think.
If you’re reading this blog you can probably figure out which practice I lean towards.
We experience life a minute at a time – but it also speeds by without warning.
Why spend it tired?
Cheers,
Karthik Suresh
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