Daily Burn #9: When Work Doesn’t Matter: The Lie of Productivity

What if I told you that your work—the thing you spend 40, 50, 60 hours a week doing—doesn’t really matter? Not in the grand sense, anyway. You could be the CEO of a Fortune 500 or a cog in a massive corporate machine, but when life punches you in the gut—when your dog is diagnosed with cancer, when tragedy strikes—every email, deadline, and meeting vanishes into irrelevance.

Here’s the truth: We’re sold a myth that productivity equals worth. That the more you do, the more you are. But no amount of hustle will hold up against the stark, brutal reminder that life is fragile. We cling to work because it’s easier than facing the hard stuff, the deep stuff—the things that really define us. But in the end, work is just noise.

What really matters? The moments that leave you breathless. The people who need you. The dog who looks to you for comfort in their final days. And yet, we bury ourselves in busyness, thinking it’ll shield us from the inevitable truth: all this productivity is meaningless without connection, without love.

So ask yourself—are you building a life that matters or just a career that distracts?

What will you remember when work no longer matters?

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