Today, as I struggle with it myself, I’m writing about productivity.
There are many ways to be productive, and the best way depends on what it is exactly you’re trying to produce. I, am writing content for Red Hoodie Games, and it’s something I absolutely need to be productive about. I need to do it everyday, and yet there are days that I let slip by me without accomplishing what I hope to. I’m still figuring out what the best way for me to be productive is, so I won’t write to you about something I don’t feel qualified to write about.
What I will write to you about, are ways to NOT be productive, that they may help you inform your own best productivity methods, and so that I can process my own thoughts and discover mine as well.
I have found that motivation is the largest factor for me in my productivity, which unfortunately I lack quite often. There’s no sense being indirect, I understand this as a weakness of mine, and I spend an abundance of time thinking on ways to improve it. My education is in psychology, so I understand how motivation and behavioral patterns work. I’ve observed my own behavior, specifically that of when I come home from work and have time to spend on RHG.
I am currently playing an MMORTS called Starborne, that I play twice daily. Once, very quickly before I go to work in the morning, and again when I get home. However, when I get home, I leave it running in the background and micromanage much more often, about every half-hour or so, more if I’ve built a new station (lower level things take much less time to build).
I also play Clash Royale as lame as that is. My girlfriends younger brother got me into it around three years ago and I’ve been grinding that as a FTP player ever since. Now, I’m decent at it, and I don’t take it too seriously, but I also play this twice a day, with the same results as Starborne.
I don’t blame the games, I blame myself for not being more efficacious about my play time. I can accomplish in 10 minutes in the morning what it takes me a half-hour to do in the afternoon. Noticing this, I’ve been making efforts to reduce how often I check my space empire, which is why I’m writing now instead of seeing if my newest station is still producing… Um… be right back.
It was but one of my other stations needed more to do. ANYWAYS!
I am not nearly as productive as I know I can be. I’ve been reading a lot lately and I’ve come to understand that it needs to be through my will that I am able to produce, and that my production is the result of my mind, and my desire to live. Linking all this together has helped me reset my brain a little and start thinking more objectively about myself. I know what I do that gets in my way, and I’m slowly learning what works for me.
In an effort to be more productive, I’m setting this goal publicly: I am going to write a blog post every day for at least seven days. I don’t know what I’ll write about. I don’t know if I’ll even feel like writing. I’m going to do it.
So get out there and do something for yourself to be productive, and I’ll write again tomorrow.
