The art of sustainable productivity: A writer's guide to doing more with less

A comprehensive deep dive into sustainable writing productivity, focusing on leveraging your time effectively while working with your natural resistance to change.

Hi,

For years, I've heard the same advice repeated in the writing community: write more, publish more, market more. The modern writing world seems obsessed with churning out content at an ever-increasing pace, but after spending over two decades in this industry, I've come to realize we've been thinking about productivity all wrong.

When I talk about productivity, I'm not interested in cramming 200 hours of work into a 20-hour week. I'm focused on something far more valuable: leverage. What I mean by productivity is doing an hour's worth of work in 10 minutes. I don't want to fill up the rest of those 50 minutes. I just want to do the work efficiently so I can move on with my day and have more time for myself.

True productivity isn't about doing more. It's about getting more value from what you do.

Consider an email list. Whether you have 100 subscribers or 1,000, you're still writing one email. The leverage comes from having your same effort reach more people, create more impact, and g…