{"id":4299,"date":"2020-10-04T14:09:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T14:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloomsoup.com\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2021-09-19T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T15:35:59","slug":"productivity-and-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloomsoup.com\/productivity-and-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Productivity and Success: The Ultimate Combination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Productivity and success are intimately related.

Whatever success means to you, if you want to see better results, it’s worth spending at least a little time analysing how efficiently you’re getting things done<\/a>.

This was certainly true for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quitting my job<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A while ago, I decided that I wanted to change career, which forced me to think about how I operated.

When I worked as a physiotherapist, I was employed to do my boss’s bidding, sticking to a predefined schedule with little room to move.

I was allocated a certain number of new patients each week and only then had the freedom to arrange patients’ follow up appointments.

Although it made sense to be efficient in completing my paperwork before it piled up at the end of the day, I was limited in the productive behaviours I could realistically employ with my patients.

Their recovery times were ultimately dictated by the severity of their injuries and although I employed the most effective treatment for each situation, their rehab times were somewhat out of my control.

Add to that the physical restriction of only being able to see a certain number of new patients per day, and productivity became an afterthought.

Until I quit my physio job and started working for myself, that is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Productivity and success<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My career change involved diving headfirst into the unknown, first dabbling in freelance writing and then digital marketing, culminating in my current role at a startup.

It was only when making this transition that productivity<\/a> became an important consideration.

Freelance writing is a job that perhaps best exemplifies the causal relationship between productivity and success.

Often writers are paid per word or a pre-agreed amount for a finished piece.

Let’s say you’re commissioned to write a blog article for a company, who agree to pay you $X.

Now, you could spend the full day writing that article, or you could improve your ability to produce more words per minute, halving the time taken to write an article.

Now you can produce two articles per day and double your earnings.

As a freelancer, it boils down to increasing your output for each unit of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Increased efficiency<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Even after transitioning to a marketing role, I discovered the same principle at play.

If I’m able to complete my work more efficiently, it liberates more administration time to learn new skills for existing projects and pitching new clients.

Both contribute a net positive effect to my business. It reminds me of the great scene from the Pursuit of Happiness with Will Smith…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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