When I was at the supermarket yesterday, I bought loads of groceries, since I only do these types of shopping like once in a month, I get carried on and on 🙂 and at the end, all of the items are placed in commercial bags for me to carry…

I held all of the bags, and started walking, and walking, I live pretty close to the supermarket, and on that day I said that I needed the exercise…

4-5 minutes later, I was very tiered, tiered from the load I was carrying… But wait, the total of items vs their weight is not something a healthy 35 years old male cannot handle! and yet I had to take several stops on my 10 minutes trip… until I reached home.

What happened to me, happened to you before, and I don’t mean carrying the bags, but the entire way that we carry our items that makes a huge difference.

Let’s put it this way: If the entire items, were carefully put in a travel backpack, and the weight was distributed all over our body… not only we could manage to get it going with, we could even fit more and more items!!!

One of the secrets to productivity, is knowing how to distribute and balance your load… You see, sometimes the number of items on your plate might seem reasonable, and manageable, but yet you fail to see that the WAY you are carrying off your items / tasks / responsibilities is not ideal, and will make you feel tiered and you may be in a situation where you can’t continue due to the “unexplained” load you are carrying…

 Make sure you don’t carry the burden of the whole world on your shoulders, just in case someone needed them to cry.

~Nema Al-Araby

Our tip for this week is, as always, simple 🙂 … Make sure you pay attention to HOW you are carrying your load, and not only to how many manageable items there are…

Enjoy your Week!

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Samer Chidiac is a Sr. Strategist, Author & an International Innovation Expert.

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