Clarity is better than productivity

Productivity is a waste of time

I’ve been trapped in the cycle for the longest time.

To do lists, time management, productivity apps, and morning routines are mostly a waste of time.

I’ve consumed lots of content over the past year, from philosophers to athletes to entrepreneurs

None of them try to be productive

They have a clear image of their destination painted inside their head, anything extra is wrestled with and removed without a second thought

Which makes sense why they achieve massive amounts of success

The average person is distracted, their attention is scattered, they have no sense of urgency, and are trapped in an illusion of progress

Which makes sense why they keep living the same year every year

The main differentiator between the successful and unsuccessful are clarity and honesty

Here are some ideas to help you with both

• Talk to your enlightened self

"Easier said than done"

There is no point in fighting fate, you can try, it will hurt, more than it has to, eventually, you'll have to sit down and accept nothing is in your control, shit happens, people leave, heart breaks, plans fail, jobs end, friends betray, trust shatters, dog dies, and all you can do is adapt

I received a reply to this post the other day

‘How did you come up with this?’

I sat down and vented everything to my enlightened self, at the end i told him it’s easier said than done, and he gave me that answer

Almost everytime, the answer you need will come from having a conversation with your enlightened self

Your enlightened self has the knowledge, courage, skills, and traits you lack

Whatever problem I complain about to my enlightened self, the answer normally is some version of ‘it’s not a big deal’ or “you know the answer.”

And. it’s. true. every. single. time

• Try to love what you do

When you love what you do and use your creativity & imagination to make it rewarding, work doesn’t feel like work, or at least less like work. So you don’t burn out from it or need a holiday.

It’s a paradox.

When you do work that you enjoy, you want to do more and more of it.

You can’t get enough

You act because every hour spent is pure joy.

Whenever i tell people to love what they’re doing, they mistake it for their convenience

They ask me ‘you mean if i don’t like it, i should drop it’

No

In most cases, you don’t like it because you’re not good at it, you’re not good at it because you haven’t done enough of it

Everything sucks at the start, if you never cross the sucking phase, you will never reach the point where you start to love something

Once you’ve done enough of it, then you should decide if you can do it for the rest of your life or not

• Your work takes less time if you stay off your phone

This is the boring advice most people don’t want to hear.

A phone is full of distractions, cheap dopamine, temptations, and seemingly important tasks

The human mind only has a limited amount of energy to spend in a day, if it keeps jumping from instagram to youtube to work to tiktok, it will take you a week to do something that would usually take an hour.

Throw your phone in another room when you’re working. Or go old school and swap your smartphone for a dumb phone (only makes phone calls and receives text messages).

• If you don’t do it daily, it’s not real.

The average person is delusional.

They think they have goals or dreams, but they’re based on luck, or worse, hope. So they never make progress and keep lying to themselves about their future.

They lack courage to admit they are the reason they aren’t making any progress

Without this level of self awareness, it’s near impossible to achieve something

Turn that wild dream into a goal, break it down into actions, add deadlines to it, and mentally construct a situation that forces you to move

• Uncertainty is normal

Mental strength is built through progressive overload of uncertainity

People who follow cute productivity hacks hate uncertainty.

They think they’re doing something wrong, or they need to make some changes

Wrong.

Uncertainty is a sign of expansion

It means you’re moving fast, making mistakes, learning new things, and going through an evolution phase.

If you keep avoiding uncertainty, don't take accountability, and fail to learn what you need to, you'll continue getting angry, anxious, and overwhelmed in minor situations.

• The answer to more is in less

Most people lack focus (guilty)

They’re purposely juggling too many tasks

The power of being clear on what you need to do is incredible.

When you choose one path and shut off everything else, the focus you get creates a level of intensity that gives you 3 years of progress in 6 months

Look at how you spend your day.

Now be honest if they’re important tasks or a coping mechanism for difficult tasks

Honesty, you need it, desperately, or you’ll keep working 12 hours every day only to feel anxious at the end because you didn’t actually achieve anything

• Stop fearing rejection

When you get lots of rejections you stop fearing it.

Talk to your crush, make more offers, post more content, send more messages, be annoying, make noise, get blocked, do it again

After a certain volume, this makes you non reactive and being non reactive is the key to progress

Let the pain from rejection fire you up.

Use that pain to bulldoze towards a new plan, a new routine, a new body or a new mind

That’s it for today, i’m running late

See ya next week