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

by Ali Abdaal

Step three is the most crucial: execute. Make a change. And as you do so, see what effect it has on your situation – and your sense of alignment.

Misalignment burnouts arise when we spend time on goals that don’t match up with our sense of self.

First of all, look to your long-term future.

Next, think about your medium-term future.

Last, you should be ready to think about your short-term future.

that my mistake wasn’t in what I thought about productivity. It was in how I thought about it. At the time, I was getting all the basic tactics wrong. Instead of viewing productivity in terms of what made me feel good, I was viewing it in terms of discipline: how much pressure I could pile on myself to just do more.

productivity isn’t about discipline; it’s about doing more of what makes you feel happier, less stressed, more energised. And I know that the only way to escape procrastination and burnout is to find the joy in your situation

Because in the long run, it’s only by adopting an experimental outlook that you can hope to learn the secrets of feel-good productivity.

go, remember that this process isn’t about striving for perfection. It’s about strategically stumbling your way to what works. Learning from your failures and celebrating your successes. Transforming your work from a drain on your resources to a source of energy.