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Roy Abdo tells the story of a lumberjack who chops more wood than his peers by taking an hour daily to sharpen his axe. The lesson: productivity isn't about constant motion. It's about being prepared before you work.
Roy Abdo tells the story of a lumberjack who chops more wood than his peers by taking an hour daily to sharpen his axe. The lesson: productivity isn't about constant motion. It's about being prepared before you work.
Every morning, the lumberjack comes in to chop wood. There's a bunch of them, and they notice that this one guy takes a 1-hour break, and he's chopping more wood than all the other lumberjacks. After a couple of months, his friend asked him, "How are you chopping more wood than us and you're taking a break?" He goes, "Yeah, I go home and I sharpen my axe." It's not about the amount of things you're doing, it's how much are you ready for the things you're doing. Are you sharpening your axe? Are you rethinking what you're doing, not just only moving with activity?
