I Didn't Do The Thing Today: On letting go of productivity guilt

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A bonus star because it gave me the strength and inner peace to Let Go of Productivity Guilt and stop reading halfway through. Whether it’s romance, friendships, career paths, or new interests, we never saw most of the things that give our lives meaning coming. She tried so hard to take her personal and generalize it but the intensely personal would have been more useful and interesting.

Perhaps the best advice when facing indecision is to recognize that we can make a choice, and it doesn’t have to be the right one—because there is no such thing. It’s perfect for people like me, who are a little too driven, slightly OCD, and have some Catholic guilt!writing books is about offering perspective, news ways of seeing things and expanding our worldviews. This is a series of chapters which contain both wise advice, kind words and a realistic recognition of the struggles we all face. Obviously the "pro-productivity" genre contains its share of gems, doozies, and lots in between as well. So many of these let go and let breathe pieces of advice are just kept in the abstract when what would also be useful is “here’s how you set the boundary even if you haven’t done it before start now…” glad I borrowed it from the library. I also just find a source of endless frustration when authors make an active choice to name drop- and even more so when the name dropping comes from situations and interviews they weren’t even involved with.

Perhaps instead of filling time, we can inspect whether what we fill it with creates a sense of fulfillment. It’s a great approach for a productive day, but beginning our day with dread can make it hard to get out of bed. An important case for worrying less about getting things done and more about the things that are worth doing.

One approach to reduce wasted-time worry is to remember that time cannot be wasted in advance—a sentiment I’ve borrowed from Arnold Bennett, who says that you can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose. Do you push yourself to do more and more, but somehow no matter what you accomplish, you still feel disappointed and guilty at the end of the day? Author Madeleine Fire talks about a lot of the "productivity hacks" people have embraced in the push to always be doing more, taking on more, and gives a lot of great reasons why it might be time to let those go and find rhythms and paces that work for us and allow us to build a full life instead of just a busy one. Packed full of thoughtful and thought-invoking quotes and passing on lived experiences of not having to be a Productivity Powerhouse all the time; you can just be a human too. Beyond being thought-provoking and well-organized, it gets bonus points for not making up a new word every page (like most self-help books) and instead relying on well-established terms.

Even on days when we get a lot done, the thing left undone can leave us feeling guilty, anxious, or disappointed. If I had a quarter for every time the author uses the words, “we,” “our,” or “us,” I could live off that for a few months.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. For anyone who has ever felt the pressure to do more, be more, achieve more, this antidote to our doing-obsession is the permission slip we all need to find our own way. That is a perpetual struggle- but I would have appreciated more from the author herself on the subjects rather than every man and his dog!

If you're feeling overwhelmed and like all the balls dropping no matter how you juggle, I Didn't Do the Thing Today might also resonate with you. in the same way, you might explore news ways of looking at how your spending your time, where you place your focus and most importantly, how you treat yourself and others. she cares about the topic herself and spends a few years interviewing creatives to gain understanding on what works and how creatives find value in their days/weeks/years/lives. Through these platforms and by regularly conducting life experiments, Dore investigates how to live creatively and broaden the definition of a day well spent.But if we are curious about the ordinary moments, if we tend to them, if we get the good out of every bit…what a life we will have created.