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Will you survive ‘busy’ in 2020?
How to stop the hypnotic pace of ‘busy’ ruling your life
There isn’t a person I’ve spoken with in the past six months who hasn’t made some comment about being busy.
Busy at work, at home, in the garden, in the community, running around after family and sometimes busy doing all of the above (and more).
Busy does not discriminate by age, occupation nor postcode. It just seems to be an ailment of modern life that we willingly embrace and (at times) wear as a badge of accomplishment.
There is a dark side to busy. It’s inefficiency and poor delegation skills and perhaps it’s about limited boundaries. Busy is a convenient place to be when avoiding other, perhaps more pressing or difficult things and it conveniently distracts from bigger, more lofty goals.
Whatever the reason for the onset of busy, it tells us there just aren’t enough hours in the day to get the work done so we keep on going, and going, and going. It is the taskmaster that starts nagging in the wee hours and keeps the motor running as the sun sets.
Busy is not a healthy, nor sustainable state.
Sure, at times busy is unavoidable — as a business grows and the revenue catches up, in a period of learning, a time of change, as a season prevails or as kids go through major life…
