Presence Over Productivity

Kristen Vandivier
4 min readJan 7, 2021

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“Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

-Alan Watts

Today was a good day. It didn’t start that way though, I was particularly exhausted and the kids and I were struggling to white knuckle through the homeschool assignment list. Productivity was not happening, so I told them to go out and play since that kind of hands-off supervision…

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Kristen Vandivier

Instructor of Vedic Meditation and Founder of The Vedic Method and Meditation Without Borders. Also, mother to Scarlett, Delphine and Adrian.