Feeling down for not being productive.

My experience feeling unproductive

This week, I've decided to dedicate this post to the concept of "feeling productive" in our daily routine. I don't know about you but sometimes I feel like I'm not being productive at all like, for example, last week. Consequently, I normally start to feel down or even frustrated because I want to do a lot of things but my mind is not on the same page as I am. But, why? Why have we to be always productive? Why do we feel sad or guilty when we are not?

During all these years at the university I have felt like I need to be productive every single day in order to achieve deadlines, pass exams or study some lessons in advance to not be anxious in the last days of study. Due to this, even when I was really exhausted because I've spent the whole day studying or doing homework or whatever, I felt bad for being playing some games, reading or just spending some time with my family or friends.

When I was studying Japanese in my degree, I felt really exhausted because the rhythm of the class was so wild. We had homework everyday, one test (or two) per week, essays to do, studying, etc. just for the Japanese language subject. Due to this, when I was doing some exercises, tasks or so for another subject I felt really unproductive with Japanese because I really felt like I should focus on it more than to other subjects. Consequently, I usually ended up procrastinating everything and feeling so unproductive with everything.

It is ok not to be productive every day

Nonetheless, last year, I decided to try not to stress because I didn't do everything I've planned for that day because I think it is not worth to be anxious just because you are imposing things on yourself that you must do that day, mandatorily. But that's not correct because you can reschedule whatever you didn't do that day because maybe you really felt like you need to go for a walk with a friend that day and, probably, that walk will make you more happy than just trying to keep focus on something you don't want to do.

Even if I try to comply this, sometimes I cannot avoid the feeling of sadness reaching my mind because I haven't write a blog entry that morning, for example. But, as this illustration says every feeling has a message for me or a lesson to teach me.

So, all in all, the message I tried to send with this post is that it's ok not to be productive every day but I really understand that feeling and, somehow, it's kind of inevitable. Moreover, feeling sad it's ok too! Don't feel guilty because you're not being productive today because tomorrow who knows!