It\u2019s easy for me to overdo things. I know, shocker. What can I say? I like getting things done. But the problem is that when I overdo, I underperform.<\/p>\n\n
For people driven to achieve, it\u2019s a common trap. Even if we pare things down to the essentials, we can plow so deep into those that we\u2019re just wasting our efforts\u2014even while we think we\u2019re making headway.<\/p>\n
Instead of being satisfied with an effective level of engagement, we go over the top. It might be exciting at first, but it\u2019s not sustainable and will actually set us back.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m all for playing full out, but if you play full out on everything at all times, you\u2019ll just burn out. Or lose heart.<\/p>\n
So we quit, and I\u2019m sure we can all think of other examples from our lives where we\u2019ve done that. All our productivity was really counter productivity. We need to get to the bare essential of the bare essential.<\/p>\n\t\t