Increasing productivity is something we would all like to do. Do more, earn more, feel like you’re accomplishing more. But this is a double-edged sword in a lot of cases.
Take the overconfident approach, for example. Setting yourself impossible goals which you can’t live up to.
Say you’re a student with goals in mind. Do better at sports, get better grades, better your social life, etc. All reasonable goals, right?
But what if you want to go too far? Beat (insert popular school player here) in 30 days of training, memorize every fact in the textbook, make sure nobody has a negative opinion of you. That’s a fool’s errand, but there are people who try and attempt it. If you aren’t able to plan out reasonable steps to success, you can’t succeed in the first place. That’s why every self-help website or goal-setting planner will advise you to make baby steps. These small steps forward build up to create an impressive total.
Increasing productivity is a slippery slope. If you can tame the beast and take reasonable steps, you will go far. If you overextend or overreach, you lose all your progress.
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