🦄 Inclusive productivity community fighting Hustle Culture 🥳 Helping disabled, chronically ill, mentally ill, & neurodivergent creatives balance & manage life
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You deserve more than a life of working smarter.
You deserve a life that's ✨ brighter ✨
Working brighter is about rejecting productivity culture and finding a better balance between work, rest, and play.
Join the movement here --> workbrighter.co/newsletter/
ALT a brown & beige horse emoji labeled 'working smarter' next to/compared to a purple and blue unicorn labeled 'working brighter' on a white background
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Divesting from hustle culture mindset is an intense journey.
In my coaching and community work, I've noticed a few distinct stages.
Which stage are you at?
ALT a pyramid divided into parts labeled, from the top: f*ck capitalism, rest > productivity, rest is productive, rest is necessary, productivity is everything to represent leveling up in hustle culture divestment
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When you live with chronic illness, disability, mental illness, or neurodivergence, it's hard not to feel broken sometimes.
So a reminder to anyone else who needs it:
You're not broken, society is.
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4 ways to clean up your phone right now:
1. Delete any apps you haven't used in 3 months
2. Take apps you use less than twice a week off your homescreen
3. Turn off notifications for any apps you can
4. Purge your camera roll
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"Time' is the most frequently used noun in the English language.
Says something about our obsession with productivity and Hustle Culture, doesn't it?
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We talk so much about building new habits, but what happens after that?
Here are 3 different ways a habit can go, depending on how well you maintain it: workbrighter.co/after-habits…
(Hint: Aim for a snowball, not a balloon.)
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Why the "ADHD is a superpower" narrative is more harmful than helpful
🧵 a quick thread...
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Divesting from Hustle Culture isn't an overnight process.
Given that we're indoctrinated to it over the course of a lifetime, internalized capitalism and workaholism isn't something you can 'just shake off' in a weekend or two.
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When you're a neurodivergent creative, you need to build yourself a lot of guardrails to keep your productivity and the rest of yourself on track.
The best ones will be different for everyone, but these are the most helpful ones for me: workbrighter.co/creative-sys…
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the gen z 'that girl" mindset is just the newest iteration of the longstanding pressure for women to be perfect.
for previous generations, it was about 'having it all.'
or "girlbossing."
now, it's about being 'that girl." but it's all the same.
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One of my favorite books of 2021 was What Can a Body Do?, about how disabled bodies meet the built world.
In it, I learned about the concept of "misfit bodies," which I absolutely love.
Here's how it goes…
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When most people talk about productivity, they talk about things like:
- Time management
- To-do lists
- Time blocking
- Task batching
- Workflow automation
But if that's where you start, it's going to be useless. 😬
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"We are built to oscillate between work and rest. When we allow for this oscillation, the quality of our work improves, along with our health." - Burnout
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things that hold no moral value, actually:
- fitness
- food choice
- work ethic
- weight
- cleanliness
what else can you add?
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"if society treated mental illness the way we treat physical illness...”
i'm gonna stop you right there.
it does.
it shames, dehumanizes, blames, and doesn't accommodate people dealing with both.
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Productivity dysmporphia.
Did you get chills the way I did when you first saw that phrase?
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What even is productivity anymore? 🤔
Traditionally, productivity has been defined as producing something. Technically, anything.
But in Hustle Culture, productivity is defined as our usefulness and devotion to capitalism.
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Our approach is partly inspired by @the_jennitaur's writing:
"The point of doing nothing...isn’t to return to work refreshed and ready to be more productive, but rather to question what we currently perceive as productive."
*QUESTION WHAT WE CURRENTLY PERCEIVE AS PRODUCTIVE*
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One of the reasons it's so hard to deal with chronic stress is because our brains get so focused on the stressor we don't deal with the stress itself.
It's two separate things.
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If you're about to digital declutter, think about what you want to get out of it first.
It helps give you direction for WHAT to declutter.