Day 15 of 100 - 02/08 - Defining Productivity
I INITIALLY PLANNED ON WRITING THIS AT THE END BUT I CAN’T CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT! THIS BLOG NOW HAS AN INSTAGRAM PAGE SO YOU CAN FOLLOW TO KNOW MY DAY-TO-DAY IN PICTURES! (username - rainbowsnsunnies)
Wait, I am officially 15 DAYS INTO THE CHALLENGE! WHAT?!
Today, I felt what I haven’t in a long time. I felt at peace with myself and today, for the first time in 15 days I wasn’t fighting a battle inside my head about whether or not I’ve been worthy enough of the day. Today, I felt happy and I really haven’t felt that in over a week.
Today, I was trying to understand how it has already been a fortnight of the challenge, and an hour later I still could not understand how it had been 15 days, but moving on! In an attempt to just see how the journey has been so far, and kind of audit the gaps, I opened my tumblr and was going through my posts and wow, I really suck at consistency and keeping up.
And don’t even get me started on the amount of breakdowns that I have had in the past 15 days. But why did it happen? Why have I had the most amount of mental blocks in such a short phase of the challenge which was supposed to completely transform me into a productivity machine?
It happened because maybe I was defining productivity wrong all along.
This is what I feel, if you’re keeping up extremely well with being a machine and absolutely smash the hell out of productivity, well kudos to you! And I’d suggest you don’t read any further, I don’t want to discourage being that kind of person.
But that really isn’t what my mind and soul agree with. At least not at this point. I;m quite a perfectionist and when I don’t achieve what I set for myself, it completely wrecks me to the core. When I told myself I’d study 6 hours, workout 1 hour, meditate for 30 minutes and just be busy all day along, I was shattered when I realised I wasn’t able to do that. I defined productivity as being busy and that is where it all went wrong.
Today, I refuse to define productivity as being busy. Today, I define productivity as studying, then taking a break to have a jam session with my favourite songs, then have a 30 minute workout session, have a shower and read about something new, study again, and then try to develop a new skill! Although, you might think this is still being busy, to me it is not. To me, even the tiny little breaks where I am not trying to be overambitious and move mountains with my achievements gives me that extra time to recharge my batteries and kill my next study session.
So, when I say today was productive, it really WAS PRODUCTIVE!
I studied, jammed to my favourite songs, worked on developing a new skill (which is learning Italian from the most amazing tutor in the world - @hideerie ), studied again, sat in my backyard listening to my favourite songs and then had my dinner.
It was Sunday, so I didn’t workout, but in another news (let’s pretend you don’t know this) *drum rolls* I have an Instagram page now!
https://instagram.com/rainbowsnsunnies?igshid=70ici7nikenh
I just found it a bit annoying that there were limitations to sharing content on tumblr (by limitations I mean the feature of a ‘story’, that would fix EVERYTHING!). Like I said, I was really happy today and I had this urge to keep sharing every single time when I ticked an item off my to-do list but then realised, you can’t share ‘stories’ on tumblr. Hence why, here comes my Instagram! I’m so excited to share more of my day on there! You can go follow me, if you want to and have a peek into my day and then come at night over here to see me sum it up in a blog post! I’d love to have you over there so please come say hi!
Wow, this is an exceptionally long post but I haven’t felt so content and satisfied in a while now and the bubbling energy really makes me want to write and write. So I am going to end this post here and see y’all tomorrow!
Arrivederci! (I hope I got that right @hideerie hehe)