You’ve got to find what you love. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. — Steve Jobs, Develop a Messianic Sense of Purpose

The cycle of productivity

Posted: December 8th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: All, Startups | 2 Comments »

This is hardly the first time I’m writing this post, or at least a post with this sentiment. It goes as follows:

  1. Write a reflective post about how it’s necessary to not give up a balanced lifestyle (exercise + social + sleep) in place of more time put into work, as ultimately productivity is higher if balanced.
  2. Begin to be stressed about work, trying to meet deadlines.
  3. Start pulling all-nighters, skip the gym, and all-in-all a less health lifestyle
  4. Crash.
  5. Repeat

Let’s hope that this cycle can be broken.

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  • Manuel

    Glad (or sad?) to see that I’m not the only one…

    Good luck breaking the cycle or at least keeping 4. the smallest step

  • http://timsoo.com Tim Soo

    Haha. Seems to be relatively universal at some point in the entrepreneur (or human) process.