You don’t walk into an annual performance appraisal meeting and boast — “I sent 20,000 emails last year.” You don’t flaunt the number of meetings you have attended.
Because nobody cares about those things — these metrics are meaningless.
But if they don’t count for much at the end of the year, why do we spend so much time on them during the year?
Because they give a false sense of comfort that we are doing something. We get lulled into complacency. And then, one day, we realize that it was all mostly a waste.
Career growth, financial independence, and work satisfaction come from doing real work, not from somehow staying busy.
So here is a simple recipe for success and financial freedom:
1. Do fewer things, but only do things that matter.
2. Cut down low value work.
3. Totally stop fake work.
– Rajan