<p><a href=”http://chris.derecola.com”>Chris</a>, as expected, questioned my lack of blog posts on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. He read <a href=”http://www.iammike.org/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1330092120&amp;archive=&amp;start_from=&amp;ucat=9″>my goal</a> more literally than I had intended. Or, upon further inspection of my original post, he may have purposely misinterpreted “It may not be here” (in reference to my writing production) for the purposes of being a salty individual… I’ll freely admit that I do such things from time to time, and having known him as long as I have, he’s well up to the task.</p>
<p>In case it wasn’t clear, I will reiterate… I will not be blogging every morning. That’s not what I set out to do and it’s not what I will be doing. On Tuesday morning, I put together and published three pages of meeting minutes for my running club. On Wednesday morning I took a day off from the task. Yep, I’m fallible! I’m also not keeping up with the goal on weekends because it’s not as feasible without a morning routine.</p>
<p>I digress… After asking me about it, we had a bit of a conversation, which led to today’s topic…</p>
<p>Chris and I got hung up on the word “produce.” It’s a nasty one. He argued that being productive was the same as producing. Reading your daily e-mail is certainly productive, but is it an activity of production? No, it’s consumption. To me, producitvity does not necessarily produce. By definiton, “produce” is “to make or yield a product”. One could argue that an empty inbox is a product. I would not agree with them, but I could see their viewpoint and would be happy to agree to disagree.</p>
<p>So… To clarify, I’m looking to create product each morning.</p>
<p>Words are fun.</p>