Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal.
Today I'd like to share a concept and experience by Oliver Burkeman.
This is an observation that many people seem to feel as if they start off each morning in a kind of productivity debt. Which they must struggle to pay off through the day in hopes of reaching a zero balance by the time evening comes. It's as if you need to justify your existence by staying on top of things in order to starve off some I'll defined catastrophe that might otherwise come crashing down upon your head.
Many of us have a to-do list that we need to try to get done, what Oliver Burkeman shares is what if instead we had a done list. So instead of starting with a list that we are in debt off, instead we start to list things starting from zero. So that throughout the day we have small wins or big wins and it builds momentum day to day.
And so the counter thought of this is if you're working towards something you need to have a list of things to do in order to achieve and that is fair enough but I believe the power in this is also the reflection of what you have done throughout the day. Because if you're constantly doing and not reflecting that these are the things that you have achieved, it can often feel you're in a constant state of debt trying to balance things out. And that is an ongoing cycle versus reflecting at the end of the day thinking this is what I've done, this is what I've completed, no matter how small or big.
Reflection in terms of wins throughout the day, is way better than catching up to things that you still need to do.
Thank you everyone for listening.
