0 words. I could have written today, but in one of those fateful moments, I encountered a book that completely changed the way I think about life. I was up all last night and today reading it. I’m still percolating on it and thinking about the best way to share it moving forward. More to come.
But I did want to take this time to talk about my recent streak of low productivity.
Since the start of the challenge and this past week, I’ve been way less productive than I typically am, and that’s okay. Everything is a season. One of the reason I am able to have such high bursts of productivity is because I have moments of downtime like this. I savor them just as much as the “beast mode” times.
In these times, it seems that my soul/subconscious knows that I need something. So it puts a block on my productivity as a signal to me that my attention is needed elsewhere. Every time I encounter a streak of three or more days of very, very low productivity, I’ve learned to be on the lookout for whatever is about to come my way.
Sometimes it’s a family or personal issue.
Other times it’s a work issue (every job has busy seasons, and it’s healthy to focus on it for a time).
And other times, it’s because your soul is about to put you into a collision with something massive and insanely bigger than yourself. You don’t realize it at the time, but your lack of productivity isn’t really because you lack inspiration—it’s your soul preparing itself for the collision. You never realize it until just after the collision happens.
Like I said, I’m still processing what just happened with this book I read, but it will have an impact on just about every area of my life, in ways I don’t yet realize. It’s not every day you read a book like that, so I’d say the break from writing today was worth it.
Have a good weekend.
