Why being productive?
It is really tempting to continously do consumption activities like watching videos, listening music, or playing video games, or shopping for hours. While these activities do provide instant satisfaction, they generally don’t fully satisfy our desires in bonding, achieving goals, and recognition. Additionally, they do not produce a result that is beneficial on the medium or long term for you or for the society.
On the other hand, constantly generating value is also not reasonable as one benefits from diverse activities, including a level of entertainment.
Nevertheless, a level of productivity is desired as it provides a certain wellbeing on the short term, but also on the long term. Productive investment of our time generally leads to a better tomorrow such as a safer, more comfortable, and more qualitative future.
Next time, before turning to consumer mode, ask yourself if there are areas you can be more productive instead!
How to be productive?
Great that you decided to try being productive. Next comes the tough stage consisting in deciding what to do. While this practically highly depend on each person’s situation, we believe that there are guidelines which can help its decision-making.
First of all, what one person do will generally be driven by one’s goals. And we believe that we all share the same high level common goal being to aim at feeling as good as possible over the course of our lives.
Second of all, the decision-making and doing process generally consists in 4 cycling stages. The first is the review of the situation, the seeking and planning of options and actions, their execution, and optionally the rewarding of the attempt.
While many decisions are relatively straightforward, many others are complex, especially because our situation is generally involving feelings, one or a group of people, and/or the surrounding world along with their uncertainties.
This situation makes it difficult to brainstorm and decide upon options, which can be a source of fear, stress and lack of confidence.
Under construction, the YeahVibe online tools aims at facilitating the assessment of the situation and proposes to split it into three main parts: YeahMind for enhancing the decision making process towards achieving our goals, YeahGlobe for awareness of the world resources, and YeahSight for simplifying the assessment of options for great paths going forward.
When it comes to achieving goals, YeahMind provides support for the most important topics we believe that everyone should be aware of:
- What our general goals are (more info in Wellbeing Basics )
- How one can efficiently plan and prioritize (more info in Prioritization & Planning)
- How to efficiently collaborate (more info in Collaborative Skills and Influence & Leadership)
- How to avoid self-limiting mindset (more info in Growth Mindset Collection)
- How to facilitate change of habits or processes (more info in Habits Improvement )
