How I Became More Productive By Rebelling Against High Performance and Productivity Coach’s Advice

I do some of my best thinking from bed on my phone.

No, I’m not scrolling or consuming.

No, I’m not on Instagram or Facebook, looking at how many likes something I’ve shared has or hasn’t received, or waiting to be triggered by someone’s comment. 

I’ve trained my tool to be a vessel of creativity.

Most of my blogs, posts, and emails are written from bed on my phone.

Most of my client prep before coaching calls happens as I review my notes from my bed, the night before.

I write them, create them, then refine the next morning over an almond milk cappuccino in the cafe downstairs. 

Now, you may be thinking, “But that’s not HIGH PERFORMANCE!”

And I know I’m probably making any productivity coach CRINGE in their seats, because “That’s not the way it’s done.”

Say’s who?

High performance is whatever you make “high performance” means to you.

For me, high performance means operating from a space that FEELS GOOD.

Feeling good means getting out my daily content.

Feeling good means making those big, courageous asks.

Feeling good means lying in my bed. 

Feeling good means doing it on MY terms, in MY way, and not in what some “guru” has said.

And currently, this works for me.

I decided long ago that I wanted to make doing business feel good - like a Queen.

A Queen arises for no one.

A Queen needs not sit at her official desk to get things done. 

A Queen sets her own rules, her own standards, for how life, business, and her leadership get to be. 

I take the inspired action that comes through and from this state of relaxation. 

Instead of applying the PRESSURE to write and perform whilst seated properly at my desk, I get to allow the divine downloads to flow through me as I feel fully supported by my ungodly amount of throw pillows.

Instead of BEING HARD ON MYSELF and having to DO BUSINESS A CERTAIN WAY, I give myself the grace, flow, and freedom to work in the spaces that INSPIRE me…

Currently, that’s my bed at 10 PM at night. And allowing for that to be what it is. 

Who says I have to work at my desk? I do sometimes, and I love that space.

But the state of relaxation and ease that my bed puts me in creates the space for intuition, for flow.

It’s BECAUSE of that that it would be irresponsible for me NOT TO WORK from bed when I feel called to it.

Always honor intuition.

It flows through you.

It works in states of relaxation.

I honor that connection with the Divine and the divine downloads come. 

I wasn’t always this way.

I used to NEED the discipline of sitting at my desk, scheduling out the time religiously to commit to owning and showing up as I needed to.

I NEEDED that container back then as I was just learning WHAT courageous actions to take in my business.

Now, I know. And now, I ALLOW myself to feel supported, held, nurtured.

I used to NEVER work from bed. I had to be seated properly at my desk, or worse in my office to be able to get the world done.