Lifestyle Changes for Productivity

What are Lifestyle Changes for Productivity? Work life balance is on the minds of most workers. They may wonder if they are more productive, will they get more free time?

Optimum productivity results from optimum health, fitness, vitality, spirituality, emotional intelligence, and relaxation. A balanced body, mental focus, emotional stability, and generous bent lead to chemical balances that optimize productivity.

That is a lot to grasp in one paragraph. Productivity criteria can differ from workers to executives to entrepreneurs to laborers. Some professions require physical strength and stamina. Some require leadership and emotional intelligence. Some professions require creativity. Others may require a professional service delivered with great focus to detail.

Evaluating Productivity

Evaluate what productivity means in your work. Is it completing as many tasks or “to do”s” a day as possible like an Amazon warehouse worker? Is it serving as many customers a day like in a restaurant, bar, or retail store? Is it managing sales people? Is it managing managers? Is it setting the course of a company as a CEO? Is it producing solutions to consistent problems? Is it working with software, AI, research? Is it producing art as in entertainment?

Now consider some of the obstacles to reaching your intended objective. Are you always feeling at your prime? Do you have nagging physical, emotional, relationship, or financial issues? Do you have interruptions during your work time that take you off track? Do you lack adequate support? Do you lack the ideas necessary or skills to perform your tasks? Is there too much time pressure or too much on your plate? Are you always wishing your were someplace else or had more meaningful work? Do you think about not leading a purposeful life? Are you sad about not making an contribution with your time or efforts?

Evaluating Solutions

Now think about some solutions. What would be the first thing you would do to eliminate your biggest obstacle(s)? What would it take to get this in place? What support or who would have to support you? What relationship, financial, physical, mental, or emotional changes would have to occur? Who could support you in making this change(s)?

What are the barriers to you taking this step? Fear? Financial issues? Relationship issues? Skills? Confidence? Risk avoidance?

Let’s take a minute to examine some lifestyle changes that create optimum productivity. Health is a starter. Feeling great is a great incentive to do good work and make a bigger contribution. Health has a lot of spiritual benefits. When we feel great, we want others to feel the same. We often want to help others feel the gratitude we feel. Here we are setting a spiritual connection with ourself and others to make the world a better place.

How much time do you spend learning? Learning stimulates dopamine. If the subject is challenging, meaningful, and could help you benefit others, your dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin go through the roof. Life immediately becomes purposeful.

How much passion is in your life and what stimulates it? Passion is love. Passion is purpose. Passion is an unstoppable force that accepts no obstacles. Passion makes work play if your work is your passion. Passionate pursuits create a purpose for you doing everything else. If my passion is bike riding, I plan my time so I can include my passion. I want to take care of all the responsibilities necessary to allow my passion to be engaged.

“Flow” is our most blissful state. Flow is engagement in an activity in which we have mastered the mechanics and are pushing for an outcome just slightly above our past performance. When we engage without interruption our happiness brain chemicals support our activity and we reach a blissful state; an addictive state; our purpose; our reason to be here. We should try to find flow several times a day.

Time Management is Life Management

Time management is the key to having more productive time. We should plan in advance the activities that would make the day most productive and aligned with our objective. A guru said our weeks consist of productive time, indirectly productive time, and non-productive time. Productive time is doing what will most likely get us to our primary goal. Indirectly productive time is the activities that support this goal. Non-producitve time is everything else. Most people have at least 60% non-productive time in their week. Track yours.

Exercise is time well spent. Our body and brain function better as a result of exercise. Most people that don’t exercise say they don’t have the time. Productivity is improved with having a well functioning body and brain. The two result in more stamina, energy, creativity, emotional balance, reduced stress, fewer chronic diseases or health events, and spiritual gratitude.

Healthy eating is a game changer. Eliminating harmful foods support all our systems. Diets with too much sugar eventually cause health events. Too much waistline fat eventually cause health events. Daily focus on better eating is spiritual. It connects to Nature. It makes us aware that we can feel great with superior nutrition. We can manage weight without exercise, but exercise supports weight management.

Have a Spiritual Practice

Have a spiritual practice. There should be moments or activities or relationships that make you happy you are alive and experiencing this time on earth. It brings balance to everything else you do and helps set your values. Live your life by your values and it brings morality and ethics into your consciousness.

Make your days more productive by setting objectives for a more productive lifestyle and it will lead to accomplishing your goals in life and work.

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Lifestyle Changes for Productivity

Making Gratitude a Primary Goal

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