{"id":15284,"date":"2022-09-05T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/?p=15284"},"modified":"2022-09-03T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T21:07:00","slug":"burnout-busy-productive-try-this-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/editorials\/burnout-busy-productive-try-this-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnout and busy \u2260 productive: Try this to complete your to-do list"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I used to hear the word \u201cburnout\u201d I would picture the freaks from the gone-much-too-soon series, Freaks and Geeks, as they would bum around outside, smoking in between classes. Now when I hear the word \u201cburnout,\u201d I think of myself a few years ago as my brain was being fried by life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t smoking between classes, rather running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to figure out how to manage all of my tasks at hand. I\u2019d make a to-do list, see everything I had to do, and drown in overwhelm.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d spend my days fretting over how busy I was, and nights catching up with friends via phone, talking about how busy I was and how there just wasn\u2019t enough time in the day.<\/p>\n

Notice that nowhere in here was I actually doing anything productive. I fell into a vicious hole of being so consumed with how much I had to do, I wasn\u2019t taking the time to do anything but stress.<\/p>\n

At first, it made me feel interesting and somewhat important that I had so much going on. I quickly realized that no one cares and it\u2019s not that interesting (I also quickly remembered how much I love to just relax and not have something planned every day of the week).<\/p>\n

This is where I learned the of the most important lessons to date \u2013 being busy does not equal being productive.<\/p>\n

It got to a point where I was running on fumes and eventually had this epiphany that how I was operating was doing nothing to help me. This was in part brought on by seeing someone close to me behave the same way, and I was able to actually look at how defeating it was.<\/p>\n

From there, I made it a point to change my tune. Instead of wasting time writing and re-writing to do lists, I challenged myself to make one master to do list and accomplish at least one item upon completion of writing the list. This helped shake off the cobwebs and I was able to feel a bit of weight off of my shoulders.<\/p>\n

The ideas surrounding the hustle mentality had me so consumed and all I was doing was hustling my way to nowhere. After feeling the burnout, seeing someone else operate that same way, and seeing that hustle mentality mocked<\/a>, I was finally able to break free and get stuff done.<\/p>\n

And, guess what? I have even more to do now, but feel more calm and collected than ever. I just have to repeat the mantra: Being busy does not equal being productive. Being productive \u2013 especially in silence \u2013 is so much better and much more rewarding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(EDITORIAL) How my evolving understanding of \u201cburnout\u201d helped me learn an important distinction between being busy and being productive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337715,"featured_media":19231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[1921,253,1234],"class_list":["post-15284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials","tag-burnout","tag-editorial","tag-real-estate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/convert-phone-calls.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15284"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19573,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15284\/revisions\/19573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}