Good piece. Since I’ve worked in service fields for others and now for myself most of my life, productivity has never been an issue. However I did work for the long deceased behemoth DEC or Digital Equipment Corporation as a production worker in a circuit board back-panel shop in the late 1970s. We were building circuit boards for main-frame computers where DEC stayed too long without entering the PC marketplace and so failed.

I approached production as a service, making the quality of my work approach excellence. That was a long time ago and those standards don’t apply to productivity in today’s world.

I am in agreement with you, Aytekin Tank, “being” — as in a sense of being, working on being present and/or releasing ourselves into the present moment is a life-long aim.

An aim is a goal that is it’s own reward that can be done infinitely and never be completed. An aim brings joy because it is separate from the finite world of goals. A goal can be teased from an aim. A goal is finite because it has a beginning, a middle and an end, whereas an aim has no beginning and no end. My aim is to relieve suffering. Suffering has a purpose — which is mostly unknown. Nevertheless suffering cannot be eradicated ever as long as we occupy corporeal bodies. In the past I have made goals to attract clients to help them with their problems — their suffering. I no longer use goals like that.

I served a client who was a multi-million dollar entrepreneur tech genius who invited me to a success group that met once a month for several hours for about nine months. At first I felt I didn’t belong. I was measuring my success on the amount of money I earned. In 1995 I left my 40 hour work week for my own endeavor. (I don’t call it a business because I was “called” into this line of work — more of a life-long service and joy) Mid-way through my journey through the group I realized my success was never bound up with money but with the joys of the work of getting out of the way to be of service. Interestingly enough when I realized this clients began flowing into my practice without any effort on my part.

I have worked hard and continue to work hard at a new business I am developing, so I know hard work and long hours. I also believe I am very blessed and may have beginners luck too especially since I surrendered into what I’m meant to do with my life.