5 emotional keys to improve your productivity

One of the most important aspects to live with well-being and fulfillment is productivity, that is, achieving our objectives (professional or personal) with the least amount of resources possible, in less time and with less stress, in order to live a harmonious and full life, where you have enough time for yourself, your family or your hobbies.

However, we live with constant blocks that paralyze us and distance us from what we really want. In turn, it is common for achieving the proposed objectives to take time, stress, confusion, and even personal conflicts. For this reason, many times it ends up being exhausting and almost impossible to reconcile professional life with personal or family life. What can we do to make that change?

Actually productivity does not consist in effort but in strategy, in your way of creating, take steps and go towards your goals intelligently, knowing how to use the resources you have at your disposal without exhausting them (time being the most important of them). So that... How to increase your productivity?

The key, as surprising as it may seem to you, is totally emotional. Because? Because human beings are emotional beings, every second of the day we are excited and emotions influence not only our our state of mind, but also in every decision we make, action, interpretation of the world and also in your relations.

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Emotional keys to improve productivity

The famous creative blocks, believing that you don't deserve it, the famous procrastination, the difficulty to manage time, not knowing how to plan or organize yourself, or having difficulties taking decisions, are problems that depend mainly on emotional factors.

For this reason, no matter how hard you try to get a change to overcome that procrastination or block or to be more productive, we will not end up achieving it if we do not go to the root of the problem: our way of managing your emotions.

I am going to give you 5 very simple emotional keys so that you can overcome your blocks, procrastination or increase your productivity (get more and better results but in less time and with less effort).

These keys are Those that everyone who wants to grow personally or professionally needs to apply to increase their productivity, and with whom I have worked in the last 10 years accompanying people in processes of change as a psychologist and coach. If you want to experience this process, you can visit empowermenthumano.com to dig deeper and get free help for getting started.

1. Learn to manage fear

Fear is a paralyzing emotion. But... Why does it paralyze you before certain actions if nothing bad is going to happen? In fact, sometimes what scares you are actions that lead you towards what you want and make you happy. The problem is not having gone deep enough into that fear.

Unconsciously, you may believe that something dangerous will happen if you take action: lack of acceptance of the others, hurt other people, that you do not achieve your goals as you thought and that weakens the vision you have about you... They are unfounded fears that block you.

2. Build your confidence (emotion)

Confidence is an attitude, but also an emotional state. If you don't fully understand the emotion of distrust, you can get paralyzed when it comes to making decisions or going towards what you want because you think you don't have enough capacity.

Although capacities are really created and we never have them all with us (your capacity is something that develops little by little), the important thing is to take action. If you don't take action, you will never know if you have the necessary skills, and in the event that you need to learn something else, taking action will be the opportunity to find out.

3. defy laziness

The human being is an animal of habit and tends to be comfortable in order to protect himself. This can do that you make the decision to postpone what you really want.

It is about facing your short-term motivation (which leads you to laziness) against your long-term motivation (which leads you to growth and well-being). It is also an emotional process.

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4. Generate enthusiasm for change

To make decisions, know how to organize and plan, learn to manage time... you need to be open to enjoy change. When we are afraid or lazy to change, everything continues to happen in the same way.

Enjoying the changes implies confidence, and that emotion is the most important to transform your life. It is not about confidence that everything will go as you want, but confidence that, whatever happens, it will be to learn and grow.

5. Live a process of change

It is not only about experiencing changes, but about living through a whole process of change, where you learn to understand and manage your emotions so that you have them on your side instead of against you. This is how everything will change and the blocks will be left behind.

Living proactively, fully aligned with what you want and need, depends on knowing how to manage the resources you have (time, effort, etc.). It is not something possible with software, a magical agenda or a thousand assistants to plan your day, but rather It is achieved by learning to have emotions on your side. It is the most valuable energy in your life and the one that will lead you in a straight line not only towards productivity, but towards your well-being and the possibility of living the life you want and deserve.