I should be doing something productive.

我应该做些富有成果的事。

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In doing so you will become a more productive problem solver, and a much happier person as your reality will be filled with glasses that are half full.

通过做这些，你将会成为一个更有成效的难题解决者，和一个更快乐的人，因为你原本只有半杯满的现实将被充实填满。

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Maybe you can relate: feeling like you should be doing something, but you feel stuck, somehow unable to take productive action towards some end goal.

可能你们也会有这种感觉，觉得应该做点事情，但是有感觉被绊住了，并不能朝着目标采取有效的行动。

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This is social waste: people are standing in line at the unemployment office when they could be doing something productive.

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And it was this need - to be seen as doing something productive - that outweighed Obama's desire to put the screws on Israel by preconditioning talks with a freeze on Jewish construction.

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We need them to help do what traditionally banks and financial services are supposed to be doing, which is providing business and families resources to make productive investments that will actually build the economy.

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