Are You Climbing the Wrong Mountain?

Welcome back to More Zest, the private podcast for Productivity Gym members. In this episode, Jasmine explores one of the most important foundations of productivity fitness: goal clarity and alignment.

It’s easy to set goals. The real challenge? Making sure your daily actions actually lead you towards the life you want, rather than keeping you stuck in endless busyness.

Using the mountain metaphor, Jasmine digs into:

• Why urgent tasks trick our brains into feeling productive (hello, dopamine hits from clearing emails 📧).
• The sunk cost fallacy and why stubbornly sticking with the wrong goal isn’t progress.
• The psychology of motivation (self-determination theory) and why aligned goals energise you while misaligned ones drain you.
• The signals that you’ve drifted out of alignment, from procrastination to resentment of your to-do list.
• Practical ways to realign: weekly mountain view check-ins, using a word of the year as a compass, and retesting your Productivity Fitness score.

Jasmine also shares honestly from behind the scenes of her own Productivity Gym launch and how she’s learning to pivot away from hustle-driven strategies to methods that feel aligned with her values.

💡 Your takeaway: Don’t just ask “am I moving forward?” Ask “am I moving in the right direction?” Productivity isn’t about climbing faster it’s about climbing the right mountain for you.

👉 Download the Zest in Action Self-Coaching Kit in The Productivity Gym to dive deeper and apply today’s insights to your own goals.

🎧 Want to explore further? Listen back to these Productivity with Zest episodes:

• Episode 2 – Scaling Your Business Mountain – connect your daily steps to your long-term vision.
• Episode 10 – Crafting Your Path with a Year-Defining Word – use a theme to anchor your decisions and keep you aligned.