Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

by Ali Abdaal

feeling good doesn’t just end with feeling good. It actually changes our patterns of thought and behaviour.

Positive emotions are the fuel that drives the engine of human flourishing.

our feeling is contagious to other human being, bad or good ones. happiness drives us to do more to be happier or sustain that happines for a long time. moreover, it's beyond for ourselves but for the sake of people around us.

feeling good enriches your life.

success doesn’t lead to feeling good. Feeling good leads to success.

Some people reach their success, name it fame or fortune or something else but they don't find the happiness that they think they can have. Perhaps, they define happiness wrongly all this time or perhaps they don't make the right criteria of their success. the reality doesn't meet their expectation even though it's a success

that if you’ve ever felt underwater, you don’t have to settle for staying afloat. You can learn how to swim.

❤️❤️❤️

success isn’t down to how often you fail. It’s about how you frame your failures.

No failure is ever just a failure. It’s an invitation to try something new.

Believing you can is the first step to making sure you actually can.

confidence isn’t something you’re born with; it’s something you learn.

‘Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.’

asking for help from others can actually be a gift to them, rather than the burden we usually assume it will be.

‘Benjamin Franklin effect’. It suggests that when we ask someone for help, it’s likely to make them think better of us.

i think on one side it kind of boosts their ego but more holy than that is that it makes them feel needed and valuable

Asking ‘why’ repeatedly reminds us of what we should really be focusing on – and allows us to home in on it.

when we become overly focused on achieving a very specific end-goal, we may lose sight of other key factors, like staying true to our values.

If you don’t know when you’re doing something, chances are you won’t do it.

SO TRUEEE! Because if you don't dedicate a time for something, you don't mean to do it in the first place. You have to make the time!

You no longer need to think about when you’ll do it. You just do it.

It isn’t lack of talent or inspiration that’s holding you back. It’s fear.

When you’re procrastinating, say to yourself, ‘What am I afraid of?’ Our core vulnerabilities and insecurities are often at the heart of procrastination. To work through them, we have to first identify them.

You can focus on the small losses. Or you can celebrate the small wins.

By accepting and forgiving our inevitable tendency to procrastinate – and celebrating the little victories instead – we can begin to conquer its hold over us.

Don’t fail with abandon. Regardless of how you’ve done – or how you think you’ve done – you can always return to what matters.

Life isn’t about maintaining focus all the time. It’s about allowing space for little moments of serendipity and joy.

allow yourself to make mistakes, experiment, and grow at your own pace. Your primary goal is not to become an expert or a master. It’s to enjoy and to recharge.

By doing less today, you can do more of what matters to you tomorrow.

By doing less today, you get to recharge yourself and reserve better or even more energy that you can use to be more productive the next day

of our lives, we must be willing to embrace experimentation – and to learn as we go.