One of the most important aspects to live with well-being and fulfillment is productivity, that is, achieving our goals (professional or personal) with the least amount of resources possible in less time and with less stress, to live a harmonious and full life, where you have enough time for yourself, your family or your hobbies.
However, we live with constant blockages that paralyze us and distance us from what we really want. At the same time, it is common for achieving the proposed objectives to entail time, stress, confusion, even personal conflicts. For this reason, it often ends up being exhausting and almost impossible to reconcile professional life with personal or family life. What can we do to change that?
Actually Productivity does not consist of effort but of strategy, of your way of creating, take steps and go towards your goals intelligently, knowing how to use the resources you have at your disposal without exhausting them (time being the most important of them). So… How to increase your productivity?
The key, as surprising as it may seem to you, is totally emotional. Because? Because human beings are emotional beings, every second of the day we are excited and emotions influence not only our mood, but also every decision we make, action, interpretation of the world and also your relationships.
The famous creative blocks, believing that you don’t deserve it, the famous procrastination, difficulty managing time, not knowing how to plan or organize yourself, or having difficulties making decisions, They are problems that depend mainly on emotional factors
For this reason, no matter how much you try to achieve a change to overcome that procrastination or blockage or to be more productive, we will not end up achieving it if we do not go to the root of the problem: our way of managing our emotions.
I am going to give you 5 very simple emotional keys so that you can overcome your blocks, procrastination or increase your productivity (achieve more and better results but in less time and with less effort).
These keys are those that every person who wants to grow personally or professionally needs to apply to increase their productivity, and with whom I have worked in the last 10 years accompanying people in change processes as a psychologist and coach. If you want to live this process, you can visit empowermenthumano.com to go deeper and have free help for the first steps.
1. Learn to manage fear
Fear is a paralyzing emotion. But… Why does it paralyze you when faced with certain actions if nothing bad is going to happen? In fact, sometimes what scares you are actions that lead you towards what you want and make you happy. The problem is not having delved deep enough into that fear.
Unconsciously, you may believe that something dangerous is going to happen if you take action: lack of acceptance from others, hurting other people, not achieving your goals as you thought and that weakens the vision you have of yourself. . They are unfounded fears that block you
2. Develop your confidence (emotion)
Confidence is an attitude, but also an emotional state. If you do not fully understand the emotion of distrust, you can paralyze yourself when making decisions or going towards what you want because you believe that you do not have enough capacity.
Although capabilities are really created and we never have them all with us (your capability is something that develops little by little), the important thing is to take action If you don’t take action, you will never know if you have the necessary skills, and if you need to learn something more, taking action will be the opportunity to discover it.
3. Challenge laziness
Human beings are animals of habit and tend towards comfort to protect themselves. This can do that you make the decision to postpone what you really want
It’s about pitting your short-term motivation (which leads you to laziness) against your long-term motivation (which leads you to growth and well-being). It is also an emotional process.
4. Generate enthusiasm for change
To make decisions, know how to organize and plan, learn to manage time… you need to be open to enjoy the change When we are afraid or lazy to change everything continues to happen in the same way.
Enjoying changes implies trust, and that emotion is the most important to transform your life. It is not about trust that everything will go the way you want, but confidence that, whatever happens, it will be to learn and grow
5. Live a process of change
It is not only about experiencing changes, but about experiencing an entire process of change, where you learn to understand and manage your emotions so that you have them on your side instead of against you. This is how everything will change and the blockages will be left behind.
Living proactively, in a way that is totally aligned with what you want and need, depends on knowing how to manage the resources you have (time, effort, etc.). It is not something possible with software, a magical agenda or a thousand assistants to plan your day, but rather It is achieved by learning to have your emotions on your side It is the most valuable energy in your life and the one that will take you in a straight line not only towards productivity, but towards your well-being and the possibility of living the life you want and deserve.
