Chapter 9

Jumping off the guilt trip

Stress and guilt often are the symptoms that drive us to improve our productivity, but a life driven by stress and guilt is not a brilliant or productive one. This chapter lifts the lid on how these factors actually affect our productivity and how to change the way we respond in order to put ourselves back in the driving seat.

Is guilt stealing your time?

In the quest for productivity, we talk a lot about time, organisation, tools, schedules, techniques, emails, distraction, interruptions, motivation, mindset, vision, action, procrastination, deadlines and focus.

But there’s something I often hear, that none of us explicitly talks about. I hear it hiding in the frustration of not being able to say no and the ...

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