Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own rebirth many years ago

and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life lessons and revelations.

I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose

because self-health doesn't have to be so complicated.

So someone asks, John, I know you write books and shit, how do you stay productive?

And I think this is a great topic, especially today, so many people are working from home.

Yes, I do write books. Yes, I do shit.

Not as often or consistently as I would like, but I do.

Little TMI,MI sorry not sorry

Okay productivity the first thing is I want to talk about the mindset and the first thing is

because I always begin everything, usually with mindset, I think it's something we don't think about because we're always action oriented.

And especially in this case where productivity equals action or to most people

I want to challenge you to not think of it that way so starting with your mindset

throw away the checklist, or at least put it in your back pocket, keep it in your notes on your phone, but don't have your checklist be the day's roadmap. You know, I think so many of us are so

focused on the scoreboard. What can we get done?

And the thing is we put so much pressure on ourselves

that even if you wrote an entire book in one day,

you're still going to be like, what else could I do?

Did I do enough, you know?

And so throw the checklist away because there's a chance

that you're just gonna white knuckle

through your daily tasks. And there isn't going to be joy there's going to be

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