To Be Productive, Be Prepared
Often we think of motivation and productivity as being connected by a sort of feedback loop. When we’re
motivated we make progress and seeing that progress keeps us motivated.
But that relationship is missing something important.
Motivation is the willingness to want to do something. This is of course an important first step in
potentially being productive. We are better at things we want to do, rather than things we’re forced to
do by others, or by our own self discipline.
But motivation is nothing more than that. It helps us start, but it doesn’t mean we’ll finish, or even
produce half of what we want to. Even when we are motivated, if we don’t make enough progress our
motivation has a way of
