Pushing ourselves into being drastically different than where we are right now, creates overwhelm, stress, shame – which causes us to freeze or become scattered or unable to focus. We start to create this story that we’re so far off from being even good enough. We fail to see the skills we have, we focus on the bad and we generally just feel like we need to become an entirely different person in order to make this perfectionist plan work.

Compassionate productivity meets us where we’re at right now. It sees the areas we want to grow and instead of shaming and pushing and forcing ourselves to shapeshift into the person who we think we want to be, it values and sees us where we are – right now. Hence, the compassion. I will always preach this forever – compassion is a much better conduit for long-lasting change than shame, judgement and force.

Compassionate productivity is recognizing and allowing space for your humanity instead of trying to turn you into a robot. It’s so much more effective, my friends.

So the idea, when it comes to having a goal or making a change in your life, is that you make a plan that coincides with what you’re easily able to accomplish and meet at this moment in your humanity.

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