Rest isn’t laziness and busyness isn’t productive. Shoving our actions into these two categories is foolish. Would it really be lazy to take a nap? Is that time wasted whereas I could’ve finished writing my blog post in that 25 minutes? Well, each day is not carved into equally productive segments that we pick and choose at random. Some people have built their lives to be more productive in the morning and some, at night. Knowing which side of productivity you fall on can make the difference between busyness and productivity.
Busyness can look like so many things throughout every one of our days: answering emails, working out, wasting time on social media, etc. I personally find that these three aforementioned actions are simply busyness. None of them are ends in themselves but means to some kind of end. They occupy our time so as to make as think we are making progress in our lives. We feel like we are moving forward without moving an inch.
This is a phenomenon that is too common, and I unfortunately don’t have a solution. However, living life more intentionally and more disconnected from online activity seems to be a sort of cheat code to living life more closely to its fullest.
I hope that by reading this half-baked prompt response, I have communicated to ya that we waste our time doing “productive” things. If we actually just did things we are uncomfortable with (to an extent obviously), we would make significantly more progress in our search for meaning and purpose.
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