{"id":1090,"date":"2021-05-17T05:53:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T05:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/how-i-feel-productive-when-im-unproductive\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T06:26:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T11:26:04","slug":"how-i-feel-productive-when-im-unproductive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/how-i-feel-productive-when-im-unproductive\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Feel Productive when I&#8217;m Unproductive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have you ever had a day that felt productive, but once you look back at the day&#8217;s accomplishments, you realize you were unproductive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve felt that a lot over the past couple of weeks. I have been finishing work, feeling busy, and getting tasks done. Then when I look back, I realize a lot of the work was busy work or meetings. There weren&#8217;t meaningful or significant tasks. I push those off and instead end up feeling burnt out or unproductive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chart I put together helped me gather what I need to focus on, delegate out, and schedule or delete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" data-src=\"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2022\/03\/Productivity-Blog-Post-1024x538.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1498 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2022\/03\/Productivity-Blog-Post-1024x538.png.webp 1024w, https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2022\/03\/Productivity-Blog-Post-300x158.png.webp 300w, https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2022\/03\/Productivity-Blog-Post-768x403.png.webp 768w, https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2022\/03\/Productivity-Blog-Post.png.webp 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/538;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Productivity-Blog-Post-1024x538.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Productivity-Blog-Post-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Productivity-Blog-Post-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Productivity-Blog-Post-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Productivity-Blog-Post.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>What to do and what not to do<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s simple. It&#8217;s a framework that&#8217;s overall easy to remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>If it&#8217;s essential and I&#8217;m passionate about it, it&#8217;s a task I take and do.<\/li><li>If I am passionate about it, but it&#8217;s not important, I schedule it for later.<\/li><li>If its important, but I am not passionate about it, I delegate it to someone.<\/li><li>If its not important or I am not passionate about the task, I forget and delete it.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The workday has changed a lot over the past year plus a couple of months since we left offices for Covid. I felt optimistic and knew it would be a journey. In the beginning, I struggled with Zoom fatigue and team communication. Those have become afterthoughts as we are all pros at virtual meetings and overcommunicating on Slack and PM software. Now, I am ensuring I spend time on the right tasks and not stuck in meetings or doing email all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me know if you have any other ways to manage your day&#8217;s tasks! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leonhitchens\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leonhitchens\">Tweet me @leonhitchens<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever had a day that felt productive, but once you look back at the day&#8217;s accomplishments, you realize you were unproductive? I&#8217;ve felt that a lot over the past couple of weeks. I have been finishing work, feeling busy, and getting tasks done. Then when I look back, I realize a lot of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Personal Post"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/photo-1504805572947-34fad45aed93-1024x682.jpg",1024,682,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Leon Hitchens","author_link":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/author\/leonleonhitchens-com\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Personal Post","slug":"personal-post","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":77,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":77,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Personal Post","category_nicename":"personal-post","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/photo-1504805572947-34fad45aed93.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4928,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/4928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonhitchens.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}