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Positively_Lisa

Is Productivity helping you or hurting you?

Published 4 days ago • 1 min read

Hi Reader

We usually think of productivity as a good thing, something to strive for and something to be proud of, and as a coach specializing in that, I agree! It often is just that. As with most things in life, however, there is a duality. Productivity can be supportive and freeing, but it can also turn into something that harms us.

If you’ve ever felt like productivity was not working for you, or even made life harder, you are not imagining it. The truth is that productivity becomes dangerous when it is tied to a harmful mindset.

Here are a few ways that can show up:

  1. Productivity as worth: believing you are only valuable if you are constantly achieving.
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  2. Productivity as currency: thinking you must “earn” rest, joy, or even basic care.
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  3. Productivity as identity: feeling lost or “less than” if you are not the busy one, the caregiver, the entrepreneur, the doer.
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These beliefs do not just create stress, they fuel guilt, perfectionism, and burnout. And sadly they’re threaded through our lives, language, and history. They were inherited from cultural and systemic forces that profit when we overwork. Corporations win, individuals lose. And this approach exacerbates the struggle of those who are already overworked and underrepresented.

With all that said, I do have good news...

Productivity itself is not the problem. When we redefine it as shame-free, compassionate, and personal, it becomes something that serves us instead of punishes us.

If you’re intrigued by this topic, I share more about it on the podcast:

>> Listen to the podcast here​
>> Read the blog post here​

Here’s to healthy productivity, the Positively Productive way.

♥ Lisa

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