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Action ≠ Results
MYTH
I’m too busy to singletask.
REALITY
I’m too busy not to singletask.
Never confuse action with activity.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
“I am so busy.”
“Yeah? Well, I am soo busy.”
“You wish. I am sooo much busier than that.”
There’s a busyness epidemic spreading like crabgrass taking over a lawn. Yet the hustle and bustle of activity and the presumed reward are not linked. Keeping busy does not necessarily mean you are working effectively. Leslie Williams, president of LeaderShift Consulting, astutely observed, “Our culture is in a trance about how we define productivity. We seem to measure our effectiveness by how many tasks we’re ...
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