The superhuman feeling wears off quick

If you’re a productivity-head like me, you may have noticed that the superhuman feeling wears off quick. 

You know that feeling, right? When you incorporate a new productivity habit, you see everything you’re accomplishing, and you feel invincible? Like you cracked the code? Like the world is headed your way on a revolving sushi bar, and all you have to do is reach out and grab it? 

If you know what I’m talking about, you also know how quickly that feeling wears off. How in a matter of months, or even weeks, the new benchmark of productivity doesn’t feel like its moving fast enough anymore. How in just a few days, you’re back to the old distractions. 

This is more than just human nature; caught in an endless cycle of desire. When an action becomes a habit, the feeling of forward motion plateaus. When we started, we saw huge gains, but we see diminishing returns the longer we do something. 

Part of this is discouraging. Will we ever arrive at a higher state? Will we always be reaching for another? 

Part of this is beautiful. Life, in its meandering way, challenges us to learn and grow with every season. Nature adapts to a changing climate, and we must adapt to the weather we face. To live is not to arrive, or to achieve. It is to survive, constantly, whatever that takes. It is to discover moments of thriving as we do, and to chase those, endlessly.