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A simple test for whether you're actually productive: does this task move the needle toward your goals? If not, replace it with something that does. The framework applies to everything from meetings to emails.
A simple test for whether you're actually productive: does this task move the needle toward your goals? If not, replace it with something that does. The framework applies to everything from meetings to emails.
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.
