“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” – Paul Meyer
Productivity is a remarkably good thing. Productivity is the key to your best life.
Productivity is simply a gauge of your output over a period of time. Productivity is how efficient and effective you are at producing results.
It means being more efficient at how you do things, at it means being effective at doing the right things.
Improving productivity is a way to get better, faster, easier results.
Your ability to produce better results is a key to your success whether you are an athlete, an artist, or any profession.
Do All You Can to Raise Your Productivity
Productivity is a powerful way to explore your potential and realize your growth.
The more productive you are, the more you can innovate. You can innovate in the way you do things, and you can innovate in the things you create.
When you innovate in your productivity, you open new doors to possibility in your work and life.
How important is productivity to your wealth and quality of life over a lifetime?
Ray Dalio, a famous investor and philanthropist says it’s the most important thing:
”Do all that you can to raise your productivity, because in the long run, that’s what matters most.”
Productivity Can Improve Your Quality of Life
In the article,“Making it in America”, in the Atlantic, Adam Davidson writes about how to create and keep a job in our globalizing, mechanizing, economy.
It’s a deep look at the impact of the shift to globalization and how “the rewards for being skilled grow, while the opportunities for unskilled Americans diminish.”
One of the passages really stood out for me:
“Productivity, in and of itself, is a remarkably good thing. Only through productivity growth can the average quality of human life improve.
Because of higher agricultural productivity, we don’t all have to work in the fields to make enough food to eat.
Because of higher industrial productivity, few of us need to work in factories to make the products we use.
In theory, productivity growth should help nearly everyone in society. When one person can grow as much food or make as many car parts as 100 used to, prices should fall, which gives everyone in that society more purchasing power; we all become a littler richer.
In the economic models, the benefits of productivity growth should not go just to the rich owners of capital.
As workers become more productive, they should be able to demand higher salaries.”
Productivity is a wide open world of infinite possibility!
Productivity is a Powerful Tool
It reminded me that the way forward, is not to go backward.
It’s to embrace change and empower yourself with skill.
Personal productivity is a powerful tool for surviving and thriving in a world where better, faster, cheaper is the name of the game.
In my experience, the key to productivity is to apply it to meaningful problems and to flow value along the way.
Invest in Productivity for the Best of Your Life
Invest in your productivity skills to realize your potential in work and life.
To keep my own productivity in check, I use a guiding question:
“Am I working on the right things, at the right time, with the right energy, the right way?”
While the question itself doesn’t hold all the answers, it does hold the keys that help finding them.
When it comes to “making it,” I think productivity is one more lesson we learn from business that applies to life.
It’s an area we can invest in for the rest of our life, for the best of our life.
It never goes out of style.
