Why Working Less Will Help You Achieve What You Want More?

I used to talk a lot about doing more and studying more to achieve what I want. However, the more I do, the more I feel farther away from my original goals, which not only makes me more stressed but also fails to bring me success. effective as I imagined. Have you ever been in a similar situation, but why do some people seem to be able to do a lot of things at once and what do we need to do to improve these things? or at least closer to my goal. In May, while listening to a Podcast, I saw author Car mention his new book Slow Productivity after consulting a few reputable reviews. I decided to buy it, read it and try it out. I found it quite good and suitable, at least for me, in terms of redefining productivity and enjoying work and life more. Let's talk a little bit about the author later. Professor Car Newp is an author with quite a few famous books such as skill comes before passion so good that they can't ignore you work for fun Deep work or preaches Digital Life Digital minimalism so I think This will also be a book worth reading. Basically, before that, I still thought I was a pretty productive and efficient person. But for some reason, I was always late for deadlines, easily stressed and always stuck at work. First chapter The first thing that hit me right in the face is the problem I'm facing, which the author calls pseudo productivity. Fake productivity means using tangible but unimportant tasks to measure productivity. like checking a lot of emails, always filling in the timetable, doing work A, then moving on to work B and then work C without having any time off. Van Van This is also something that most people, including many companies, are still doing. Defining productivity based on how long a person works: If you 're at work 12 hours a day, you're likely to be a more productive person than someone who works just eight hours and leaves on time. Or say that you always appear busy going back and forth in the company with phone calls, then there is a high possibility that your boss will believe that you are a hard-working and productive employee. Going back to my own story, I used to think. It 's always good to have a fixed schedule and do as much work as possible, but sio productivity makes me realize that the problem of doing a lot of unimportant things is not the productivity of doing things that are meaningful to me and High quality is productivity. To really get out of that seven, the first thing you need to do is understand what is important and meaningful to you and how to maintain work efficiency as well as productivity. The most stable mental state at this time I started to dig deeper into the three main principles in this book including one do feel things do less two work at Natural pce listen to one's own temperature three upset over quality is obsessed with quality. To better understand these principles and how it affects our work efficiency, let's find out with me in the next part of this video. Definition in the book. difficult to interpret. In my understanding, this means that CT reduces the number of jobs and obligations as much as possible and takes advantage of the extra time from this reduction to focus on a very small number of the most important projects. This is quite contrary to a principle that people often pass around that if you want to have more, you have to work harder. The more work you do, the more you will achieve what you want. I think it's not necessarily wrong. but because of our way of understanding, it puts us in bondage and pressure to do as many things as possible in the present moment or to be too busy with too many things on our bodies or to think that we can do everything well. In every field that I'm interested in, at first I didn't realize the problem in this way of thinking because if I finish this job and then jump over to continue doing something else, it's like I finish studying this subject and then I jump over to myself. It's not a problem to study another subject like when you were in school, right ? But that's also the mistake that leads to self-sacrifice and being easily overwhelmed. The reason here is not just the amount of work. tangible work but also a very important thing that the author calls overhead It 's also the space in our brains reserved for it. That means when we consciously or unconsciously think about it, when we have to spread our thoughts to too many things, too many areas, too many problems, we easily get stressed. and it is impossible to work or create effectively. That is also the reason why this principle is extremely necessary, especially for those who tend to be workaholics or like to do many things like me. How to start rearranging your priorities with a tool that I really like: Energy investment portfolio, this is a map of my energy and priorities, including a wishlist of things I want to do. I want to do it in the undetermined future. Holding Tank is something I want to do but it's not a priority at the moment. If I have free time, I can do it if not, then it's okay. Active projects are things I prioritize at the moment, at most. three things instead of five or seven like before I applied this method. These are the things I will prioritize my time and focus on. Passive are habits or everyday things in my life that are not necessary. Spend some time thinking or paying attention to it, such as going to the gym or getting up early every day. Actually, these are just things that I've always done before, without adding or subtracting anything. But after rearranging my priorities, First and determine which is the Active Project What are the tasks in the Holding Tank that I become more comfortable with because the overhead of those tasks has been eliminated? If I have time, I will still do the other things, but if I don't have free time. Or if you don't want to do it, it's okay. The problem here is just to remove the psychological barriers from there, so my life becomes easier so I have time to read books and write reviews here and there and play games. movies, etc. But still ensuring the quality of the three main things while before I focused on a lot of things but couldn't do much of them. So I think the sentence "l is more" is very true in this case. This is something I encountered a lot in the past, like I didn't want to be late and always wanted to do more to make up for the time I did n't do enough, for example, there were times when I only finished a video in two weeks. In the following weeks, I want to be able to make two videos a week to make up for the previous time, but in reality, it's not because I'm lazy or wasting time, it's simply that circumstances don't allow me to do it with Nhiep. At such a level, even for myself, the more stressed I become and the distance from my original goal is to focus on myself or get caught up in the idea of ​​having to always fix my glasses every second of every minute in my schedule of doing one thing after another. Others are always busy from day to day and week to week to be effective and productive without stopping for a moment and listening to themselves. For example, last time I always insisted on making videos. Every week Dang has to read books and learn foreign languages ​​every day and maintain regular exercise Dang but still has to do well at his full-time job but I realize I can't because I'm not a full-time youtuber. Not being a student with Khai quite a lot of time during the day, after accepting that I am not a child but just a normal person, I started to sit down and give myself a more suitable course for each individual. What I do and there is a quite simple but very effective way mentioned in the book to solve this situation is to dle your timelines, which means giving yourself more than double the time to do something. Because most of us I often overestimate my own abilities, always thinking that I will complete a task in a very short time, which is only feasible in ideal cases, but often life does not work out like that, which easily leads to The stress of being late or taking on more work than you can handle when you give yourself more time means your workload is cut in half, everything is easier to breathe and most of the time you finish your work sooner. The deadline I set is, for example, instead of making one video a week, I give myself two weeks, but most of the time I only need 7 to 10 days to complete it. Actually, it was n't because I was bad or slow in the past. It 's because of time and psychological pressure or the overhead of other strange things, so if you're overwhelmed or stressed, stop for a moment and give yourself a little more time to see what happens. Nha This is simply a principle to help clarify the two principles above to avoid a hole that we can enter into to become lazier because if we only do XD and never have a deadline, we may not be able to do it. When something is done, give yourself enough space to be creative enough time to create a good enough product but not an endless amount of time or wait for perfection to appear maybe it will. It will be a bit abstract and difficult to imagine when it comes to this principle. I think only each person can clearly understand and make the most accurate and suitable decision for themselves because of the boundary between perfectionism and subjectivity. The extreme meaning of perfection is very fragile. I also spent a lot of time finding a balance point for myself. I hope you will soon find your own answer. When I first started, I didn't think There's too much about the third principle because I'm a perfectionist but I'm often too busy with work and pretend I have to do everything at the same time, so I understand that my problem is applying pressure. Use the first and second principles and in life there is a saying of Tri but always true in this case: good things take time. From there I learn to look at the bigger picture, not just Tram Cham on things. too short-term Of course the deadline still needs to be completed, but I'm also aware of my situation and where my abilities are so I can rearrange everything more appropriately than I thought, the most important thing I realized. The stories about productivity that I often hear online, like working five or seven jobs at the same time or working as a waiter and writing a novel, are actually not that rosy. I hope these experiences The experiences shared in this video will help you better understand Slow productivity and find the right pace for yourself. Don't forget to enjoy life. Thank you for watching until here and see you again in the next videos. after Bye bye