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What You Can Learn From Juggling Chainsaws
And a few other helpful tips
This is the latest volume of the newsletter I send out every Monday Morning. It’s called Renaissance and is full of learning, inspiration, and dad humor.
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What I’m learning about 🧠
There is an actual term for the bane of my existence and it’s called Productivity Dysmorphia.
This unfortunate affliction is characterized by getting to the end of a highly productive day and feeling like you haven’t done enough.
A major symptom of productivity dysmorphia is the inability to accurately recall all the completed tasks for the day.
Even when a detailed daily review would prove otherwise, your brain automatically assumes you did next to nothing.
How to fix this?
You need to set clearly defined productivity goals for the day.
I prefer using the Ivy Lee Method, which entails outlining the 6 most important things to accomplish each day.
This technique is so effective, that Charles Schwab wrote a productivity consultant named Ivy Lee a check for $25,000 in 1918, which is more than $400K today.
Both the constraint of working on only 6 tasks and the fact that you have written proof of progress, give you the cold hard evidence you need to combat productivity dysmorphia at the end of each day.
Here’s a page from my journal where I used the Ivy Lee Method:
Is it just me or is your brain looking bigger today?
What I’m thinking about 🧐
How a simple reframe can make it impossible for you to fail.
I used to think the purpose of life was growth.
Then I felt #enlightened when I realized it was love.
Now, in classic Gregory fashion, I’m questioning everything again.
