I noticed a trend a few years ago. If you asked the average person how they were doing, at least out of 10 people would indicate that how they were feeling was "busy" or "tired".
Maybe its the phase of life i'm in with my peers (family, 2 jobs home ownership). Maybe its a product of an over stimulated society with our 24 hr coffee shops, netflix and social media). Or maybe its because we feel there is some sort of badge of honour we receive from being busy.
I tend to think it's the latter.
Busyness gives us a sense of importance. If we never stop, we always feel needed. If we're needed, we must be valuable.
We all seem to have time for whatever we want. We use busyness as an excuse to avoid people we don't want to really see, or neglect jobs that we'd really rather not do.
It becomes a pseudonym for tired because we don't fore ourselves to shut down at a reasonable time at night and go to sleep.
It's a product of bad time management and misplaced priorities.
In fact in some cases we get busy with unintentional activity, and miss out of a fulfilling life laid out in front of us waiting to be beheld.
Take the busy challenge with me. For the next week/month/year... whatever works for you, take the word busy out of your vocabulary. Remove it as an excuse, and start to own your choices. Instead say, "I don't have time for that, because instead I chose this".
Take the power away from busyness so it's not a state of being that happens to you, it will become a result of choices which you & I have ownership of. If we want free time, we will simply choose to do less. If we'd prefer not to have down time, then we'll choose activity.
So what's your schedule like this week? Do you have a free night for coffee?
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