Progress and productivity

Sometimes, progress doesn’t seem productive.

Progress can seem slow, almost nonexistent, and that doesn’t make us feel very productive. But progress is anything that ultimately moves us further down the road toward our intended goal.

One of my goals in 2021 is to write every day. Every. Single. Day. This post is progress toward that goal, but if I’m honest with myself, the 189 words in this post don’t feel as productive as other days when I may have written 500+.

Don’t fall for the productivity trap. I could declutter my house, prepare the next 2 sermon series complete with in-depth study guides and have 10 meetings with highly influential city and church leaders and go to bed feeling very productive. But if at the end of that very productive day I never wrote a post — even a simple, short, seemingly inconsequential one — I would not have made progress because I would not have done anything that moved me further down the road toward a year of 365 days worth of writing.

Progress and productivity are both important, but progress is the greater of the two.

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