Productivity

Let’s talk about creativity and begin someone that you actually want to be! This blog is my experiment with the Study community and how I’ve been doing the same thing in my life.

Since I started following some productive communities around the world, i found that there is vibes around the topic of begin Productive. But after some times, I started to realize that there is something about them that is actually unique. The way they aestheticize their workflow and environment is, in the same time beautiful and actually productive. Then i understand that it is not just about begin aesthetic, it is a way of living to make the process of hard working easy and enjoyable to live a life that is valuable and fun.

Let me introduce you with someone that made me a different person: James Scholz. He did an incredible job to introducing me to the world of Studying, productivity and doing something that I always wanted to do. I always loved to learn more and more and learning itself has been always something that makes me happy (probably i’m going to be a mad scientist in the future XO). He just opened my eyes to the world of people who I can actually understand. He did all these stuff through creating contents via youtube and talk about important stuff that actually matter for a proper life.

And that’s my introduction to the beautiful world of Productivity and this blog. Also I don’t want to really talk about myself in this blog, but mostly I want to represent what I learned throughout these months.

Happiness

A lot of the people think that living a life that is easy and comfortable is better and much more suitable for humans, but this is not true. In the past months I started schedule and program my time and daily habits. It was not that much hard for me to start, thanks to the amazing and cool Productive community. I’m not saying it wasn’t hard, but for sure it was easier than multiple last times that I started to do something in my life without any goals or motivations (Also I’ll talk about motivation later in this blog). I’m not far complete and done in the case of finding my best environment to be product but I see incredible amount of progress in myself!.

Before meting this community, I didn’t know who I am. Maybe this will be funny for you but the reality is that I was in a special situation of wondering around my thoughts to see who I really want to become and even if I know that, How i want to achieve it. I even remember that I was asking myself what is the purpose of me in this life. All these questions were someone related to one thing, and that things was I liked the process of begin productive but I just couldn’t understand how can i do that or what is the way to implement it in my life. This process becomes easier when I found out that there is a community of people who think exactly like me. They study, progress hard to become who they want to be and what they want to do everyday. Then with that said, after wondering around different communities, I finally answered so many of my questions.

Happiness is not living inside your comfort zone, or maybe spending time and an easy task and acting like your doing or learning it. It is not the process of over-thinking or over-fantasizing something. it is simply the process of actually doing that thing and trying to achieve the desire results. This is simply a problem in the modern days of technology for those who are mostly consumers of digital information, instead of begin creative and creating them. What we should call an ideal and good life is a life full of new experiments and creativity, a life that you want to learn something new and try really hard for it, no effort will go unrewarded.

Then for me a happy life, is a life full of learning new stuff and spending times on things that the’re actually matter and make us excited for the future.

Valuable habits makes valuable life

I’ll not spend so much time talking about this since there is a great and valuable book, called Atomic Habits that can explain this properly. This concept is another thing that I learned from James and his community. Doing valuable stuff that you like and curious about is the most important and fun thing to do in life. Most of us, may have this idea of Loving something but not doing that thing because it is hard or simply needs so effort to be achieved. Or sometimes we fantasize things at the level that we lose our sanity for actually doing that thing. All these things are the result of chaining bad habits and getting used to things that mostly doesn’t add anything to our knowledge or answer any of our main questions. As long as we understand this concept, we can flip it over to getting used to good and valuable habits to make the life more beautiful and fun.

Doing Study and Learning stuff is a magical activity for me. It is the most beautiful way that we can rise and grow our mind to become more and more mature about all the things around us, including our beautifully complex universe, Thus combining all the things that we learn and creating new technologies and creations, is the most enjoyable activity. These are the things James and his community or any other productive communities are trying to show-case.

Then simply we can say, being productive everyday, is the most beautiful thing that we can do in our life.

My Setup

Productivity in my opinion is the action of doing stuff that are valueable and you like. personally i measure The amount of value of a task by looking at the long term outcome of it + how much I like to do that task.

Mostly I prioritize my tasks whenever I want to do them, this makes the process much more focused and interesting since you accomplish important stuff sooner than other stuff below it.

I use Google Calendar as my main scheduling calendar and Obsidian as my note taking system. Obsidian is the most fun part of it since it is not just a note taking app system for me anymore, currently I define all of my tasks using TaskNote plugin inside it, the Task View of this plugin is a great feature since I can group, sort or search all of my tasks (or TODOs) using it. I’ll make a proper blog post about it later.

and at the end of the day, I use any pomodor timer app available to do my tasks via a specific time structure. Since pomodoro timer technique is not just a simple timer mechanism and it actually let you have short breaks, i do my tasks more efficiently. Currently I’m using DMS pomodoro plugin since it works perfectly and it has shell integrations, but before this I used to use TaskNote plugin’s pomodoro timer tool.

I use Aio Launcher on my android phone, since it is minimal and fast for app navigation. Plus it has cool widgets written in Lua, means it is really dynamic for users need.

I use Okular to read PDFs, research paper or even annotates my ideas into PDF files. It’s a good and lightweight tool with great features that is cross-platform and just works.

For the operating system, I mostly use Fedora Linux but I’ll switch to other ones when i need to use certain apps that doesn’t work on Linux.

Final Words

well… there is so much things to talk about, but for now i think this is good enough. For sure, begin productive doesn’t mean using some sort of special tools or devices, it means understanding what you want to do in your life and shape proper habits to enjoy life.

Hope you liked it and i see you in the next blog. bye :>