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Three Pretty Good Reasons You Feel Like a Productivity Failure
Hint: They’re the same three reasons you’re not
Raise your hand if you’ve had any of the following thoughts since you’ve been home for weeks and weeks with extra/free time on your hands:
~ I should be writing the great American novel
~ I should be running a marathon in my backyard
~ I should remodel the entire house
~ I should (fill in the blank with whatever it is that you feel you “should” be doing during this global pandemic but aren’t)
Since the world as those of us with the luxury of staying home from work during the Covid-19 crisis know it shut down back in March 2020, a lot has been written about how this is a golden opportunity, the gift of time.
And a lot has been written about how and why we’re just not able to concentrate on anything at all during this luxurious “free time” that’s been thrust upon us.
I myself had aspirations toward literary success and accomplishment 8 weeks ago when all this began. I intended to write 3 plays, a brand new screenplay, a second draft of an entirely separate screenplay, 30 poems in April (that’s one per day, or NaPoWriMo as it’s affectionately been referred to), and a 500-word Medium post every single day. (You can…