#281: How to Be Productive No Matter What (My Scary ER Story)

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Productivity Stacks Newsletter

Issue No. 281

The Best in Evidence-Based Productivity

for Freelancers, Small Business Owners & Founders

Helping You Work Smarter and Live More

You sit down to work. And nothing comes out. You just… can’t.

Or you get to the end of the day and wonder where the time went, because it definitely wasn’t into your to-do list.

Distracted? Maybe lazy? Probably not.

Your brain runs on two completely separate resources, and most productivity advice only ever talks about one of them. The other one is why you can’t seem to get anything done during hard stretches — even when your calendar is wide open.

Here are four shifts you can make right now to get the most out of any type of day, even the hard ones.

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I have to admit that I don’t remember where I read the actual term “vacation mode” for the first time but suffice it to say I did not invent it. We could even call it the “vacation phenomenon”. I know most think of “vacation mode” as that feeling of being on vacation and that’s not what I mean here…but whatever you want to call it, I am capitalizing on it now and it also just came up in a discussion in virtual coworking in the inner circle. PLUS, the great news is you don’t need a postponed wedding to use this trick…So let’s get to it. 💪

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Wishing you much productivity!

- Jenae :) 

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