The protracted use of the personal planner made it exceedingly clear to me that productivity is extremely dependent on:
- physical health;
- amount of sleep one gets;
- psychological health.
The way you organize your labor is extremely important and productivity strategies are crucial. But the 3 aspects I listed above are what it all depends on.
Yes, these are completely obvious things but it’s important to see clear and tangible proof that the planner offered me.
It would be extremely cool to be a completely psychologically healthy person. If I were such person, I wouldn’t have freaked out like I did at the Philadelphia airport and spent an hour crying hysterically and saying “I just want to go home” to my reflection in the mirror at the Airport Marriott. I would have used that time instead to read and could have had a great time. But the mental resources weren’t there.
And large part of the reason that they weren’t there is that I haven’t been sleeping. And I haven’t been sleeping because I’ve been suffering from another cold. And the reason why that happened is that my psychological health is not great. It’s a vicious circle that needs to be broken.
In the next post I will publish an exercise that helps measure your psychological health at any given point in your life.
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Physical health is so important and so often under-rated or completely ignored. There are so many narratives about Overcoming Physical Illness/Obstacles to Achieve Great Things, and even if they are meant to be inspiring in a good way, they often are more likely to inspire guilt: if X could do Y while afflicted with Z, why can’t I even do P when all I have is Q? Not to mention the whole mind/body dichotomy, when in fact mind and body are part of the same organism and affect each other strongly.
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