I enjoyed reading about Cassey Lottman’s “productivity streams”. I’m kind of a sucker for people writing about the tools and systems they use to organize themselves. Sometimes I’ll come across something I want to try myself. Often I’ll see a lot of similarities between my own organizational systems and the author’s. Occasionally I’ll find something radically different from anything that works for me, which I generally find interesting.
We tend to refer to this topic as “productivity.” A term I am growing to dislike, and which I avoided as much as possible in the preceding paragraph. Cassey kind of gets at why I dislike the term, and this was the real standout part of her post for me.
…so many of the resources that are out there on personal productivity are intended to point people towards some higher plane of creative or intellectual output. Maybe someone using the system will write a book, or build a website as a side project, or maybe they are trying to synthesize their beliefs and knowledge about the world into a cohesive system.
All of that sounds awesome… But for right now, I am pretty busy with the many moving parts of my day-to-day life.
A thousand times this.
I’ve (apparently) written about my “productivity stream” before and, for me, all of the systems I have in place are not about enabling me to write more, or read more, or make time to become a better musician. These things are primarily about just keeping all of the plates spinning.
It’s nice to know I’m not the only one.