From the course: Productivity Tips: Finding Your Productive Mindset

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Add meaning to your workday

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Add meaning to your workday

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- Occasionally in the midst of all this getting stuff done, you might start to feel like a hamster on a spinning wheel. You're working hard, but not actually going anywhere. Even worse, what if you're doing all this work, but feel like it's pushing you in the opposite direction of where you want your life to be? Now, clearly this is a multi-layered issue that we could explore for hours. In the end, though, it comes down to one word, why? In my time management courses, I teach people to process, which is deciding what to do with tasks by answering three questions: what is the next step, when will it be done, and where is its home? It's simple and effective in most cases. But there's a fourth question you can ask from time to time. Why am I doing this? Now, I don't recommend doing this with every task and every email in your inbox, but perhaps one time a day with one task, you ask, why does this matter? How do you find an…

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