#FridayFocus

It seems that we often confuse busyness with productivity. They aren't the same...at all. Sometimes busyness doesn't accomplish anything. 

For example, one day I looked at our CD collection and decided I was over it. So I unloaded all of our CD's on the living room floor and started sorting them by artist so I could see what we have. I wanted to weed out some - or most of them. It kept me busy for a good hour. When I finally got them all sorted I decided to keep the stacks as they were so my husband could decide what he wanted to keep and what he could part with. I was so proud of how busy I had been with this project. 23 days later they were still in their neat stacks on the floor waiting. Still waiting for the hub and I to do something with them. 

So was my CD project productive? No it wasn't. It kept me busy but in the end not productive. Had it been a productive project I would have wrapped it up within no more than a few days of the initial sorting. I had lost focus - and perhaps a bit of motivation but today is about focus. *grin* I don't think I'm alone in this confusion between busyness and productivity. The difference between the two comes down to focus. I found an article that gives the readers 7 ways to focus on what really matters. I found it to be helpful on determining if what I'm about to give me energy to is just busy work or productivity. Perhaps you will find it helpful as well.