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Rhythm.

By Bamboo In The Wind

Having a rhythm is an essential aspect of being productive. Rhythm gives us predictability. Doing certain things at certain times, doing certain things at a certain pace, doing them for a particular time, with particular people.

Rhythm allows us to mentally prepare for what is to come next. We are on board with what is to come up. Why is that important? Our resistance to getting involved, engaging, do anything is largely due to our mental unpreparedness. We own things, interactions, and decisions when we are mentally willing to get involved which oftentimes is simplified by just having a rhythm. Rhythm teaches us the discipline of being there for a certain cause that affects us.

Rhythm can look like a regimented method of forcing us to do something. But in reality, it's just a habit of developing notes to ourselves to tell us how we plan to divide our day into productive spurts of activities. For instance, 30 minutes of walk in the morning, writing for 20 minutes after breakfast, an hour of reading time pre-lunch, pushing all decision meetings between 2pm-4pm, signing important paperwork between 430pm and 5pm, playing with kids to unwind right after office, etc etc. Daily routine schedule that we will do and what else we could do and when. Just knowing this simple schedule aka Rhythm gets us to be more active, committed, and focused on getting real work done.

Rhythm reserves your time for your own need to your own liking. Industrial workstyles have taken away agency from us to do the work that matters to us. 

Rhythm gives back our agency. Having rhythm is the first step to making a forward motion.

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