Eagerly spinning through web content one Sunday (my day for research) I came across a site called “Productive Flourishing.” Though the entire site is filled with interesting ideas and insight, a particular article drew me in.
It was called “How Heatmapping Your Productivity Can Make You More Productive.”
In this article the author (Charles) goes into detail on how to we might draw out our levels of productivity on a diagram signifying all 24 hours of a day. Each hour is represented by a color signifying its intensity in terms of the productive experience (more on this in a bit).
I became pumped about following my own productivity and decided to make it a 2 week Life Project out of it. I knew that it would provide me with some insight into my experience of “flow” and of “feeling productive.” I turned out to be right, but that’ll be the last post of the series.
Grey signifies sleep or its equivalent.
Green signifies unproductive time.
Yellow signifies some kind of productive striving and seems to be taking ground.
Orange involves a hightened level of productivity and eager drive, “flow.”
Red is the highest productive experience, a mental / emotional tornado of enthusiastiasbm.
For the sake of my own heat map, “productivity” implies alignment between my values and my action in a fashion that brings me closer to meaningful objectives or ends. It implies my full capacities engaged in activities that I deem best in terms of my ideals and my projects.
In this series of posts, I’m going to post articles covering a series of 3 to 4 days during my experiment. Since my project lasted 14 days, this will take about 4 total posts to get all of my days up on this site in the form of articles.
Its very interesting to find the common threads and themes in terms of my level of activity and my energy / focus. Again, after the entire 2 week long life experiment has been posted, I’m going to write up a massive article on all that I’ve learned in terms of personal insight about PRODUCTIVITY and how we might apply it to our own lives.
Keep a lookout, I know you’ll enjoy it!
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