It’s Not About Getting Things Done: Integrity Over Productivity
In my latest insight vlog, I talk about a recent insight I learned that’s helped me to faithfully show up for difficult work and projects, like the album I’m working on.
As much as I do love making music, you might be surprised to hear that I have trouble showing up to patiently finish projects I’ve started. I’m usually more eager to work on new ideas which, in this case, are a distraction.
Taking from an insight from secular productivity speaker Nir Eyal, I learned that it is important to ask the right questions. In particular, we should ask the right questions when it comes to our metric for success at work, in that it should ultimately align with our identity in God.
Key points:
To-do lists, and their limitless nature, are dangerous and distracting.
Finishing projects is not the best metric for success, especially for perfectionists.
Faithfully showing up should be our goal — letting our ‘yes’ be ‘yes’.
More than producing output, we should be more concerned about who we are becoming in our use of time, and whether that aligns with our God-given roles.
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The goal is not to find the answers, but to meet God in the chaos.