No holding back

Taking a break from my list of sarcastic productivity hacks, I wanted to write about holding back.

We hold back to save energy thinking that we’ll use it later. It is indeed a fine line between blowing all our energy on a single task and pacing ourselves, but we’ve got to be honest with ourselves when we’re holding back because we don’t feel like giving it everything we’ve got.

No holding back. The less you hold back, the sooner you’ll build endurance and resilience and you won’t be tempted to hold back as much.

So the new rule is no holding back. Go for it and trust that you will recover and be able to continue and complete the day’s work.