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5 Articles On Medium That Are NOT Telling You To Be Productive
How refreshing
Yesterday I wrote a post about my toxic productivity. As I said, articles about productivity are everywhere so I found 5 articles on Medium that instead talk about slowing down, taking a break and looking at life from a different perspective.
After reading this article from T. M. Watson, I realised I was spending all my time looking forward, thinking about all the things I should be doing and how I am not doing things quickly enough and not spending any time looking back and seeing all the things I have achieved.
If we can slow down a bit, we might be able to see just how far we’ve come.
Ruchi Thalwal’s article echoed my thoughts on control. I was spending so much time trying to control everything around me to avoid the chaos, but I was in fact doing just the opposite.
I wanted positive thoughts to live happily ever after. I thought all I had to do paradise was go on creating positive thoughts to distract negativity from my life
