Productive. "Achieving or producing a significant amount or result."
This is one of the words on my personal "Top 10 words I hate" list. It gets thrown around like some sort of expectation. You know how everyone's supposed to be different? That applies here too. I want to share with you two different days: Day 1) I wake up. I take my meds. I answer an email. I go back to sleep. I wake up. I go back to sleep. I wake up. I eat a little. I take my meds. I go to sleep. Day 2) I wake up. I take my meds. I answer an email. I get on the bus. I go to the library. I go do cadet work. I go downtown. I buy food/snacks. I go to the other library. I go home on the bus. I put away my food. I answer and write more emails. I write a few scenarios. I do more cadet work. I play video games. I take out the trash. I do the dishes. I do the laundry. I play games on my computer. I talk to a friend. I have dinner. I talk to my friend some more. I go grocery shopping. I come home. I take my meds. I go to sleep. Which day seems productive? Answer: they both are. Productive is a relative term. Sometimes, Day 1 is all I can handle, and that's ok. I did 3 productive things: I took all my meds on time. I answered an email. I ate. Other times, I need Day 2 to be able to function. It's all relative. Today, I found myself getting angry at me because I "wasn't doing anything". I was sitting in a chair doing "nothing". I forgot that productivity is relative. Besides, I did get a lot done today other than sitting in my chair. I went to cadets and sat in a chair there. I went to a meeting. I call that a productive day. I know how hard it can be to remind yourself that productive is a relative term. The point of this entry is to remind you to tell yourself: I WAS productive today. .....Clearly you were, because you are reading this now; because you are awake. That's a productive day in my books.....
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