My Problem With Productivity Tools

Here’s the problem. They are just a tool!

Donny Setiawan
2 min readSep 23, 2021
Illustration of productivity tools. (source: Unsplash)

Last a couple of days. I felt like my entire body are exhausted. My motivation released down. I get caught from my bad habit. Again.

I felt frustrated.

One day in the morning. I realized, that I’m not supposed to like this for my entire day. I need to get back my ‘tools’, which is named ‘Productivity Tool’ for my self-improvements.

I open my Notion, my journal, and the early my interest is ‘to build my bullet journal.’

What is a bullet journal? Here’s also read ‘Bullet journal — Wikipedia

Why i’m always loved doing something that they’re labeled as ‘productivity’? and why does my head get more exhausted after trying to build my bullet journal?

What’s wrong with my life?

The problem is, they are just a tool. Why did you so much effort to build something (what can i say) the perfect tool?

There are not to be the perfect tool for helping us to just build our habit or productive activity. When we are busy try to build a tool that looks perfect, we didn’t have so much time to start our productive activity.

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Rather than to start our productive activity. We’re even getting dizzy from our entire working on, ‘how my tool looks like aesthetic?’

Are am i need the tool or does the tool need me?

The consequences my body gets exhausted from trying to get a perfect tool looks.

Not focus on ‘what i’m doing today’.

The sadness, we more aware from ‘what look are we’, not ‘how to we supposed to be’.

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