The difference between productivity and busyness comes down to whether each activity moves the needle toward your actual objectives. Evaluate tasks, meetings, and interactions against this standard, then either proceed or replace them with something that does.
So I get that question a lot. How do you know whether you're staying productive or just staying busy? You know, we all have that feeling of checking off all the things on our to-do list and actually at the end of the day not really feel like we moved the needle. And that is the key. Did the activity today move the needle or not? So when I get into that mode or into that funk, I essentially try my best to say, all right, this activity, this creation that I'm doing, this meeting that I'm going to have, this person that I'm going to meet, is it really going to move the needle on what my objectives are? And if the answer is yes, then I do it. And if the answer is no, then I find something else that does.
