Coping With The Pressure To Be Productive

Being productive is good as long as it comes naturally

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Over the past few years, the career opportunities for productivity coaches have steadily blossomed. As you probably already know, the glorious advent of the mobile phone brought forth click culture, which has seriously question our attention spans. And thus, the productivity coaches come to you with their motivational speeches and war cries.

During the past few months of the lockdown imposed due to the COVID outbreak, I’ve personally observed that there are far stronger cries about productivity. You’re staying at home, not commuting, and have your own space, so why aren’t you more productive than the pre-lockdown times?

Students, academicians, and corporate employees have been dealt with this challenge throughout the past few months. If the rat race during the pre-lockdown times was about getting to work or school on time, and finishing up your work, the lockdown has inflicted a mental and internal rat race upon us.

Now we can call it the work from home rat race. Wake up every day, do your household chores and your work together with all that time saved. The pressure to be productive has increased massively over the last year.