Productivity isn’t always about adding more
When it comes to productivity, the last couple of years have taught us that being productive doesn’t mean we have to be in a physical office. The pandemic improved productivity for many, cutting out travel time to and from the office every day. Making meetings shorter with less travel time and shorter meetings. It gave us back extra hours to spend with family or doing tasks otherwise put off to evenings or weekends or working on projects we never seemed to have the time to start. Although it was strange at first, we adapted, because we had no other choice. …
Review and refine
We often think, “if only I knew how to do X, it would make things so much easier.” Time is then spent exploring how to learn what we think we need. But how we work with technology is a bit like cooking. For example, adding more liquid to cake batter that is runny won’t make your cake better, it will just make it runnier. Sometimes, adding is NOT what you need. To continue the cake baking metaphor, to resolve it, you may be able to add more flour, or if it is too far gone, you may have to let …
