On Getting Things Done

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We all want to get things done. Sometimes it feels like we have to work harder than usual to get to our daily targets. Getting everything done in time is bliss, you feel fulfilled but then, should we try as hard as burning ourselves out? Of course not. If we do how do we hit the next target? Striking a balance between freedom and accountability is a better way to hitting our targets. Let's understand what this two terms means in particular.

• Freedom:

If we work from a place of freedom, we are able to do just about anything. Our "To-do list" for the day might not be exhausted but
then the few we do are actually done with as much perfection as there can be. We can look back before bedtime and feel proud because we have done productive things. If you work under such condition, it's generally easier and flows better because you are not doing anything but productive things which is the ultimate win _{if you ask me}. I would go for freedom but there are people who prefer accountability.

• Accountability:

This could be seen as an opposite of working under freedom. You have 10 items on the list and you really don't care if you do them well as long as you do them. You rush over everything and sometimes get yourself angry in the process because, despite the fact that you ticked all the items in the list, you cannot defend any. It would be surely nice to get a lot of things done under the banner of freedom, but then it’s just very likely that you would get absolutely nothing done under that banner. The day ends with you being worn out with little or nothing to show for it.

Accountability happens to be a restriction of freedom which pressures one to act in a certain way. The upside here is a stronger chance of doing something that's meaningful, and the downside here is burnout or rebellion.

Extremes are quite Popular -- But very much Ineffective

A good number of person enjoy extremes, but most of them happen to work best when placed in the middle, that point when you can gain a lot of benefits from the extremes without having to experience many of the downsides. Think about it, a lot of us set goals and pursue them. First of all, we aim for something, let's say a diet program, these attempts to change or transform the way in which we eat overnight with an extreme accountability and some food restrictions. These diet change happens to wear us out until we would break the diet. Forgetting that there are "cheat days".

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The moment we break through the diet, we would become more likely to use our newly found complete freedom to over indulge in eating the very foods which we were not supposed to eat in the first place. Put differently, what happens here is that we go from an overwhelming accountability to some form of reckless freedom. The truth about this is that we often try to overcompensate on things like this whenever we move too far in just one direction. The moment you have excessive freedom, it would leads to some form of reckless behavior. Contrary to what you might think, it doesn’t it fire you up to make a big change; when you get to this point, you are at absolute risk for overcompensating. Whenever you begin to feel completely controlled and restricted by some program are keeping up with, does it not make you want to quit and do just the exact opposite in a bid to demonstrate your freedom? -- that's you at risk for overcompensating.

Choose to work under freedom but watch yourself so as to avoid being excessive.