LIFE, PRODUCTIVITY AND GOALS

My 5-Step Journey to Daily Productivity

If there's any big feat I have achieved in my life, it's overcoming laziness. Of Course, I would be deceiving you to say there's no trace of it any longer, but I look back and I can see so much difference in my life.. actually

I decided to start this month by sharing the 5 Steps that I walked to stepping into Daily Productivity... It wasn't all rosy and easy but looking back, they are principles and steps that have worked magic. I Should of course give all the credit to My God and His Word! They were my major tools.

I remember how much I used to be angry with myself because of how unproductive I used to be. Man, it was sooo bad! Everybody had issues me and my lazy lifestyle.. My parents, my bosses, my colleagues and team members. What they didn't know is that even I hated it

The funny thing in all of that is that I was the queen of goal setting and like most people, I wanted them DONE.. Ironically, I wanted the goals to get themselves done. I wasn't yielding useful results and I wasn't efficient, that is I wasn't using time for the intended tasks

PRODUCTIVITY is a major deal guys! When I became serious with my life, knowing that time was going, I decided that I was ready to become that person that is proactive with her life and productive with her goals..

Follow me through the Steps I took to becoming daily productive with my life and goals

MY JOURNEY TO DAILY PRODUCTIVITY

• FINDING OUT MY PRIORITIES

I should put it out that what helped me through the process of becoming productive is God, His Word and Pastor Tara Kolawole's consistent teaching on Laziness and Diligence. Through harnessing these three, I realised that I have been mis-defining PRODUCTIVITY. I realised I couldn't really be productive if I wasn't being efficient in the right things.

See ehn, I was a very productive phone presser, Novel reader, Sleepy head . However, those weren't my priorities or so I thought

The first step I took to becoming productive as an individual is finding out exactly what my PRIORITIES are and how important they are to me. I did a lot of re-shuffling, thinking about what matters to the big Vision I have, what God expects of me and the specific goals I have set for myself.

Productivity is enabled by a knowledge of what matters and what doesn't! Humans cannot really make a difference in their lives and in the life of others without knowing what life means and makes it worth it! This changed my life and it was the first step to becoming daily productive

• PLANNING TO BE PRODUCTIVE

So I cannot dispute this popular saying that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail! If there's anything I have discovered about PRODUCTIVITY, it's that it is very INTENTIONAL

This is a tested strategy guys! Everytime I wake up and I decide to get stuff done( stuff that are contained in my priorities) I actually do!

We usually expect things to happen in our lives without putting in the work. God really helped me shaaaa... I had to put in a lot of work by studying Proverbs to renew my mind in the area of Diligence.. If there's one thing the book of PROVERBS hits, it's laziness.. The legendary King Solomon of Israel seems to have a BIG thing against LAZINESS. I saw in all his sayings that you have to put in the work if you would ever overcome laziness

Productivity happens only with planning.. Having discovered my priorities, I had to daily break them down into simple, achievable steps.. I had to make provisions for the goals I set.. That is, if I say that I want to study by 4am.. I work my time around that goal and sleep early.. I PLAN TO BE PRODUCTIVE

This is an investment I had to make, giving up on activities that'll distract me, making sacrifices, dropping habits, picking up new routines, disrupting my schedule for the most important things. It made all the difference

I think I'll stop here today... Follow up my next posts to find out the other three Steps I took to becoming a daily productive individual.. Ko easy but it's possible!

REMEMBER THESE

• A problem known is already half solved! I couldn't do anything about my life until I realised I was actually lazy. Everybody else saw it but it took me a while to! List our your priorities as a person.... Are you living your life everyday and spending your time according to those priorities? No? And you're not lazy. Okay :)

• If you have learnt laziness all your life unconsciously, you would need to consciously put in work to become diligent and productive. It won't just happen by determination, it would happen by putting in the work!

I had to devour the book of Proverbs , meditate on the scriptures on laziness and diligence, take the steps.

Thank you for reading to this point! Listen to the ÌMÒYE Podcast to get the last three steps to my Daily Productivity

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