Do you ever feel like you aren’t doing enough? Or having a day off, yet you can’t keep still and you always have to do something? Do you feel bad about resting?
We are so easily led to believe that productivity means being constantly busy and using every single minute of our day to the fullest extent, but that can be so toxic and send us on a one-way trip to burnout.
Toxic productivity is masked as the hustle culture, but really it just leads to feeling unmotivated, burnout, and a lack of self-worth. We tend to put our self-worth based on how many things we get done in the day or how much we earn and that it’s so wrong in so many ways.
Being productive is a good thing. However, like everything in life, there is a fine line. Let’s talk about toxic productivity and how you can avoid it.