❌ Productivity Keeps You Stuck Working 40 to 60-Hour Work Weeks (Here's What to Focus On Instead)

<p><b>❌ Newsflash: Productivity is keeping you stuck on the "working all hours" hamster wheel. <br /><br /></b>The definition of productivity is, quite literally, the amount of output you produce. The more you can fit into a day, the more "productive" you are. <br /><br />And as someone juggling a lot, achieving peak productivity used to feel like the holy grail for me. <br /><br />"If only I could learn how to get more things done!" I used to think, "I can finally reach my endgame and FINALLY start working less!" <br /><br />Sounds good in theory, buuuut... <br /><br />Here's what happened. <br /><br />I DID learn how to get more things done.<br /><br />In fact, I managed to achieve more in a week than just about anyone else I knew. <br /><br />And the BY PRODUCT of that? <br /><br />Is that I was then able to fit even MORE in... and so the hamster wheel continued, faster and faster and faster. <br /><br />Get more things done &gt; Able to take on more things &gt; Repeat. <br /><br />I never ended up working LESS, I was just getting way more DONE in the hours I worked. <br /><br />The more productive I was, the more I could do. <br /><br />The more I could do, the more I could take on. <br /><br />And because I had set "work times", what that meant is that I was never doing LESS... I was simply squeezing more and more in.<br /><br />One day, I had a penny drop moment...<br /><br />Maybe, I thought, it's not actually about getting more TASKS done in a day. <br /><br />Maybe instead, it's installing more operational elegance into my business and how I do things SO THAT the business can be more effective, and ultimately need me less. <br /><br />It was a defining moment, and in today's podcast episode, I am going to share with you five things that I started doing that finally got me OFF the productivity hamster wheel and towards the work/life balance I was doing it all for in the first place. <br /><br /><b>In this episode, we discussed:<br /></b>✔️ PLAN;<br />✔️ Do Less;<br />✔️ Plan Tomorrow Today (Aaaand... If You Have a Team, Implement a Daily Huddle);<br />✔️ Time Block;<br />✔️ Measure Key Metrics;<br />✔️ And MORE!<br /><br /><b><br />Full show notes for this episode can be found at: </b><a href="https://thecoursecartel.com/%E2%9D%8C-productivity-keeps-you-stuck-working-40-to-60-hour-work-weeks-heres-what-to-focus-on-instead/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><b>www.thecoursecartel.com/189</b></a><b><br /><br />----------</b></p><p><b>Want more? Here’s how we can help you:</b></p> <p><b>Enjoy this content? Follow and subscribe for more:</b></p> <p><b>→ Follow Stevie on Instagram — </b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/steviedillon_/</a></p> <p><b>→ Subscribe on Substack — </b><a href="https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://lifestylebusinessschool.substack.com</a></p>