To be or not to be 'Productive'

The Pandemic Productivity Pressure is real guys, everyone is busy showing off how much they are achieving on daily basis; working from home, working out in their homes, cooking exotic dishes, having so much fun cleaning (like really when did cleaning become fun🙄) and to top it all apparently everyone has turned into a guru doing digital seminars on what to do and what not to do during the lockdown and these digital seminars don't end with just that, there are digital seminars about everything that you can think of from learning a new language to a course to more effectively monetize your professional skills. We are being urged to hustle harder than ever. 

It feels like every second that I don't utilize in developing a skillset or improving myself is time wasted. And the worst part is that this pressure is convincing. 

It's almost like a productivity contest going on out there but at the same time there are those who are chilling out (rather being lazy) doing absolutely nothing, claiming they will not give in to such pressures. 

But honestly it's each to it's own. If I talk about me, I'm at a professional stand still, I can't work from home, I can't prep for the future because I can't predict what the situation will be like for me professionally post lockdown, will there be enough work coming in or will I have to modify my skillset and move into a different job profile (at least for a while) but all these answers I'll get only in real time once the lockdown is over. So thinking about all possible permutations and combinations which might not even happen and stressing out doesn't work for me. Surrendering to this situation is my preferred option at this point but surrendering doesn't mean I binge watch on entertainment all day or even worse binge eat and become a fat cow; I am surrendering to the fact that I can't predict the future but I am not stoping being who I am. Do I watch entertainment content? Sure I do.... Do I read novels which are again in an entertainment genre? Sure I do that too but I also watch the news, I also watch motivational videos, I also invest in horning my work skills just enough for me to be in touch but not so much that I get stressed out thinking about the uncertainty. 

So do what feels right for you, do what works for you because there is so much contradictory gyan out there about being productive (or not), it's overwhelming! 

Looks are NOT deceptive; it's the Eyes that are Perspective....

Have you ever wondered why some people see a certain set of traits in you and some can see traits completely opposite to those, and often the reality is neither, it's far from anyone has ever been able to gauge. 

Then where does this difference of opinion about the same person come from? You are the same person, out there, just being who you are; the difference is in the way people look at you and process your actions based on their limited knowledge about the world and judge you for being a "certain type" of person and if incase they ever feel it's otherwise, they casually say "Looks are Deceptive"

It is never about who people really are, it's always about the perception you form about that person based on whatever little exposure about the world you have. 

Every person is so much more than just a few adjectives. 

Each person has infinite amount of capacity to do things which are beyond imagination for our tamed mind. 

Let your mind free, don't limit it to only stuff you know, have read of or have experienced. If you want to see someone truly for who they really are then don't start categorizing them based on your limited knowledge and the same goes while judging ourselves, we often have a perception of who we are but we are so much more than what we think we are because there is so much more to what we know. 

So go out there, don't hold back, be Limitless. Don't be a slave to others or your own perceptions.