About The Productivity Habit

Hi, and welcome to The Productivity Habit.

Why do some people achieve amazing things in their lives, and some people achieve pretty much nothing? How can this be when we each get the same number of hours in the day?

Initially, this blog started out as a productivity blog – you know the kind of thing – how to get more work done in your day, how to reduce stress etc. You’ll see some of the old posts are written in this context.

The thing is that I’ve realised is that I tend approach a lot of things in life as projects. I don’t mean that I get a Gannt chart out for everything, but generally I’m goal-oriented, and when I set a goal I break it down into steps and get on with achieving it. I think a lot of people approach their work and lives this way, even if their job is not a ‘project manager’.

Anyway, I think that this mindset provides a certain context for productivity – it’s the productivity that makes you good at achieving your goals – whether they are personal or professional.

So this is the context that posts on this blog are written in. The posts are ideas to help goal-oriented people be more productive in achieving their goals.

Why The Productivity Habit?

I’ve noticed that the things that I’m best at are the things that I do or work on almost every day. The things that are easiest to do are those things that have become habits. Therefore, if I want to become better at something, I just need to find a way to be working on it almost every day – a way to make it a habit.

This applies to everything – work, health, relationships, wealth, wisdom etc.

Once a habit is formed, it will make you or break you.

In every article I aim to provide an insight, and a simple, specific activity that will increase your effectiveness.

Since I believe that every person is the greatest influence over their own destiny, and that life rewards action not intention, you’ll only find practical stuff on this blog. No mystical solutions, no religious opinions.

If you, dear reader, want a better life, then you need to increase your ability to work towards that better life. You need to find the productivity habits that work for you.

The Productivity Habit is here to help you find them.

Thank you for reading, please subscribe so you don’t miss any ideas.

Mike Boyer Smith

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle (or maybe Aristotle quoting Socrates)