Louis Massaro describes how he intentionally dismantled and rebuilt his long-standing productivity system after it stopped working for him. He explains that personalized systems matter: by changing his approach he moved from burnout to feeling energized and reaffirmed his belief in having a system tailored to the individual.
Rethinking productivity. You guys know how much I value my productivity system, my block time, my scheduling, my planning, and I used my years of productivity. I don't want to call it obsessiveness, but like an understanding that it's so important to have a system and it just wasn't working anymore for me. So I was like, you know what? Let me break this whole thing apart and let me just do what feels right to me. You know, for years I needed that structure to make sure that I was maintaining all the things that I needed to do. And I totally broke apart my productivity system and rebuilt it in a way that worked for me. The takeaway was I went from feeling burnt out to feeling on fire again. And that's how much I believe in productivity. And having a system, regardless of the system that you use, something that is personalized for you is going to change your whole world.
