Productivity

Productivity starts not with your careful planning, but with your mindset
and your level of motivation. Motivation is not, as many of us
sub-consciously and erroneously believe, a general state of mind, such as
being happy or sad, depressed or elated. No, it is a very specific state of
mind which relates to a specific activity. You are always motivated, except
when you are depressed. The challenge is to find what you are motivated to
do. The activity that links to your current motivation, is the activity
that you will be able to perform, at that moment, with the greatest
enthusiasm, and most probably with the greatest level of efficiency and
effectiveness - thus it will be at your highest potential level of
productivity.

Depression is that unexplainable state where you feel unable to motivate
yourself to do anything. Where there is not a single activity that you can
think of, which you have any motivation, whatsoever, to do. However, we
often mistake a lack of being able to think of something that we would like
to do, or even a lack of opportunity to do what we would like to do, for
depression. This might lead to depression, but it is not yet, depression.