3 Reasons Why You Don’t Get Things Done

And how to overcome them

Noah Ispas
8 min readJul 5, 2022
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We all know that being productive at work can be a challenging task, especially when you are working in an open space-style office.

While the noise can be a problem or people can interrupt you at any time with some demands they have, the biggest enemy of being productive is yourself.

What exactly do I mean by that. Be honest, what is the first thing you do when you start working? Is it checking your emails or checking social media? Anyways it sets the base for your productivity.

With reading your emails you most probably get stressed from the beginning of the day, permanently thinking about all the things that you have to follow up on.

By checking social media, you start the day with procrastination or maybe getting involved in some emotional drift-offs.

The day will most probably continue with you rushing from one task to the next, answering incoming emails and messages from slack, skype, or your messenger of choice, and being exhausted when you finally head off home. At home, you have no capability whatsoever so you are happy when you manage to get yourself something to eat and get some rest for your body and your mind. At least this is what almost every day looked for me about 5 years ago. I think that’s…

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Noah Ispas

Creator of code, articles, and ceramics. Cloud-native advocate. Tech enthusiast focused on developer productivity. CNCF & Kubernetes community member.