Productivity Without Effort

In order to become the person you really wish to be, you must be reorganized body and mind.

Lately I've been asking: what would it take to feel truly satisfied with one's work at the end of a day?

I believe that's what we seek when we seek productivity.

Of course, total satisfaction is impossible as long as we are bound to any name or life with a beginning or end. As long as you believe in tomorrow, today will remain unsatisfactory, requiring completion in a still unmet future.

Total satisfaction is possible only in death (not the death of the body—though that may help—but in death of your life story).

So if satisfaction is what productivity seeks and satisfaction is possible only in death, then the secret of productivity is to die.

Wait wait wait this is not an answer that will help you with your to-do list. So in the midst of particular flow, I recorded a podcast episode about the next-best tip/ trick to being productive: total immersion in the pulse of time.

Again, not very actionable. But in this digital age, we are suffocated with information, inundated with easily exchangeable tips and tricks, exhausted by "new" content delivered in exactly the same style, while the underlying structure of belief remains untouched, unsullied, un-challenged.

I am not so interested in creating "content." I am more interested in frustrating the delivery of the content so you stutter awake for a moment, seeing the world anew (including your relationship to work).

Here's a transcript of the podcast.

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And here's the podcast.

What do you think— what is work? What is productivity? What moves beyond and beneath the two?

As always, thank you for being here and engaging with these lived realities.

Sondra ❤️