March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 25m
English
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Mistake #2Busy lifestyle syndrome
You know how the conversation goes when you catch up with your friends:
Hey! How are you?
Oh, I’m so busy! How are you?
I’m busy too!
And then you spend five minutes talking about how busy you are and how busy everyone in your life is and wouldn’t it be great to not be so busy and to have a bit more time.
‘Busy’ seems to have acquired significant social status: it gives you membership to the ‘Busy Club’, which brings with it all sorts of awesome member benefits including a declaration to the world that you are very, very important. You have lots on your plate, lots of people wanting a piece of you, lots of projects on the go, lots of work, lots of clients and lots of places you need to be. It allows you to feel busy, to look busy and to talk a lot about being busy.
And yet, is the ‘Busy Club’ really one you want to be affiliated with? Just what is it you are actually doing all day that has generated all of this busyness? Aside from the fact that you probably don’t know what it is you do all day, every day, have you ever thought about how you sound when you talk about how ‘busy’ you are? Because every single time you say ‘I’m so busy!’, what you are actually saying is ‘I’m so unproductive!’
What other women say
You wouldn’t believe how many times I’ve had to stop myself saying the word ‘busy’ since I met Kate Christie!
Julie McDonald
Busy is overused. Anyone can be busy with low-value activities: it is a way to keep yourself occupied. I ...
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