Employment and productivity

How to employ ourselves?

In connection with my previous blog-entry I continue now.

What do you call it an employment? Take an example of a courier. The courier like a post man roams through out an area to deliver the things handed over to him. Actually he does not produce anything but he is employed in delivering a material to some one which may or may not have a direct connection with productivity. After the work is done he attains a sense of satisfaction.
In a normal work-day, if we count on how much productive we are than mere laboring, it would surprise us. Particularly after the advent of the Internet, scene changed. We became email addicts,sifting through too much email while we have loads of work waiting more than we could accomplish.
We all have access to more information than we could ever consume. And the same to pastime also, we all have enormous access to numerous ways of pastime than we could be able to spend on. Life dwindles on like that in trivial drippings which we are all unaware.

Being Productive

There may be arguments on if anyone born on earth is obliged to be productive or not. Well, none expects or compels us to be productive unless we under the compulsion of any Company rules. Yet when you retire to bed after a well spent day, done some really productive thing (It may be just nailing a frame on the wall) you get a satisfaction as a human being than the other days.
It shows we are all under the habitual mould of being productive. The psychological and practical rewards fulfill our 'x' factor within us. How should we get those rewards?

1. Prioritizing the most important thing first.

Get the practice of writing a list of priorities. They may look like very trivial. It might be 'Tidying up the work desk'. Doesn't matter. You only know how much productive time was unnecessarily wasted because of the disorder found there.
Writing a priority list requires a lot of prior planning. You need to write an accurate, properly prioritized list and you need another factor. You have to block out a portion of your morning to accomplish your No. 1 task uninterrupted.
The hardest thing about living by a to-do list is that you have to constantly ask yourself the difficult question, "What's the most important thing to me right now?"A sensible and practicable to-do list includes long-term and short-term projects, and it integrates all aspects of your life.
"Prepare the home-made pickle" is on the same list at "Learn the Spanish alphabet by heart" because both are competing for an amount of your limited time.

2. Get a realistic view about time.

Any work which is productive needs a chunk of time to get it done. You may schedule that piece of time in your mind. But it may look impracticable. You can schedule and schedule and schedule, but it won't do any good unless you get a more realistic view about time. Unless you involve fully carrying out the work in your hand, you might not know how much time it needs. The best possible solution for the prioritizing remains in immediacy. For example, the mango you have bought would get rot when you delay. And learning the Spanish alphabet by heart may wait. But the mangoes would not wait. So the No.1 priority for the day is to prepare the pickle immediately. Once you got fully involved you would understand the sense of importance and the satisfaction derived from adhering to your priority list. (Continued)