Productive:
adj.[ pruh–duhk-tiv]
having the power of producing; generative; creative:
a productive effort.
I’m a list-maker and a goal-maker. I love working through my lists and accomplishing things. Lately, though, with summer here, I’ve been embracing times of being unproductive.
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“Unproductive” is probably the wrong word. But I’m certainly valuing time that is spent on things that don’t produce something immediate or tangible. Sometimes we need a break from “producing” so we can simply focus on “being”. It’s not about being lazy. That can be soul-sucking just as much as trying to accomplish too much. It’s about investing in things that energize.
In my life, that list looks like this:
- Getting up before my kids wake up so that I can drink coffee while it’s quiet in the house.
- Reading a book.
- Limiting social media.
- Spending time with my kids simply to get to know them better and not to accomplish anything beyond that.
- Spending time away from my kids so that I can be “me” without being “mommy” for a while.
How about you? What are you doing today for no other reason but that you enjoy it?