Embracing a Proactive New Year: A Preventive Approach to Productivity and Life Balance

Productivity is one thing every man seeks in order to have a better and more proactive life. This is why men have incorporated techniques such as note-taking, calendar scheduling, and daily planning in order to have a more productive lifestyle.

In this new year 2024, I choose to change my style in which I look at being productive and working on it every day. Before, I do work on things when they were urgent or focus on the easiest task before facing the biggest ones. Then, when I read the book Eat the Frog, I changed the system and focused on biggest and most difficult task before attempting the easiest.

Now, I am getting a better view of how I can structure my life to truly have a balance between every aspect of my life—as a son, mentor, student, Hive, and my tech skills. The approach I am going to take is a preventive approach to productivity, where I focus on important tasks when they are not urgent and also on those that may seem urgent. This way, I would be able to have a calm mind when these tasks are needed.

Like I said before, I don't always look at my tasks when they are not urgent; my focus is always basically on what needs to be done now. This is why sometimes in school, I may not read my notes until I notice tests will be happening soon, or I don't even plan for the clothes I will be wearing to church until it is the day before Sunday.

If I can learn to work on these tasks moments before they become urgent, I would create more free time for other things, as I would not have myself busy with these tasks because they have already been worked on long before due.

In a way, this reduces procrastination. We procrastinate when we feel burned out most often. We run into doing what pleasures us, i.e., activities that are of no importance and not urgent in any form. You can, for example, spend a lot of hours on Instagram, TikTok reels, YouTube shorts, etc. Yeah, they are great for leisure time, but at a planned time and not as an escape route.

I am willing to learn this new approach and see how it can make my life better and bring balance to my activities, in particular. I learned about this system from the book I am currently reading, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People". The book has opened my eyes to those qualities that effective people have, and I look at how I can learn and act on what is being said in this book.

𝙰𝙱𝙾𝚄𝚃 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙰𝚄𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚁

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