# My Personal Productivity Journey How we spend our days is how we live our life. We hear this all the time. I try to live by it personally + professionally. For me, that journey involves finding the tools to be my best self on both sides of the equation. I can’t handle everything in my head. Our brains aren’t meant to track minute tasks anyway. When I eventually started tracking my habits against my goals + accomplishments, I realized a couple of simple, hard truths: I’m bad at focusing. And I carry a lot of stress and anxiety. Those emotions don’t help me reach my goals, but they’re solvable through mindfulness, intention, and a little bit of planning. Integrating those changes has been a massive undertaking. And I don’t think I’ve been alone on that journey. Mindfulness and intention are really in the zeitgeist these days, and tech is helping us inch towards those empowered, best selves. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://blog.smarty.ai/my-founders-journey/my-personal-productivity-journey.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.