Josh Feinberg: Hi, this is Josh, welcome to this week's Josh's
JabGrab, grab the jab before it hits ya. I want to come to you
today in regards to a topic that I was thinking about this
morning. And that's whether you're a busy work person, or
you're productive. And a lot of people think that, you know,
busy equals productive. In a lot of cases, that's not the truth,
right? Because if you're busy, you know, I can guarantee a lot
of the characteristics that you have are, you have a lot of
frantic work, you're thinking in the short term, you have goals,
and a lot of times those goals, you know, aren't actually hit
because you're so busy. And there's a lot of characteristics
that go into busy work. Now, if you're a productive person,
right, instead of actually having goals, you probably have
priorities. And what I mean by that is, you'll actually
schedule, you know, your priorities in a numbers game. So
let's say for instance, you had task A,B,C, D, right, and wrote
those down on a piece of paper, and you knew that D was the most
important thing you had to get done. And then then would come B
and then would come A and then would come C, right. And, you
know, that is very important, as far as being able to be
productive, in being able to set priorities and be able to know
when to structure it, right. And there's no right or wrong, you
know, you got busy people and you got productive people. Not
saying that people that are busy, aren't productive, there's
just two different characteristics there. So you
know, one of the things that you I want you to take a look at for
yourself, is if you're busy or productive, because one of the
problems with busy is you always feel like that, you know, work
is frantic, you know, you're going crazy. And you're like
running in a bunch of different places, and you never really
have a clear path of where you're going. And that can
actually create, you know, some downfall. And you know, you're
not being as productive as possible, comparatively, on the
other end, you know, what your long term goals are, and you've
kind of set the steps to get there. So you know, what I want
you to focus on this week is if you are productive, or you're
just busy, because the thing is, at the end of the day, you want
to be able to be productive. And you know, you can go on Google
and Google a bunch of different articles on how to be more
productive rather than busy. And, you know, busy is kind of
like a you know, I guess you could say a scapegoat to, y
u know, saying, "Oh, I'm doing my job. Look how good I'm doing
my job." It's kind of like a f lse sense of productiveness, ri
ht. So you want to be able to f cus on being productive by doing
the necessary things that make you productive, and that's
(1) looking at the long t rm, (2) creating the necessar
steps. (3) Don't be frantic, e calm, (4) and be able to work
hrough what you need to work through. H