Busyness
"Being busy is a form of laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action"- Tim Ferris
The other day I just had two appointments. One at 8-*:30 and the other one from 3-4 in teh afternoon. The rest of the day was left unscheduled.
In the resent few weeks I have been getting better at using my time energy management system and getting more things done. This requires me to plan weekly and check in daily. For some reason this day was left unplanned.
So what happened? As the quote teaches, I was very busy. But my busyness was focused on indiscriminate actions. All of them needed to be done but maybe most of them could have been done another day. This was without thought and fits Tim's first prediction-lazy thinking. According to Tim, "Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions."
Maybe that is why I felt very unproductive and down at the end of the day. I fought a war in which I won all of the small battles but yet lost the war.
Today's question is:
"Do you catch yourself when your day is full of indiscriminate actions?
"Being busy is a form of laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action"- Tim Ferris
The other day I just had two appointments. One at 8-*:30 and the other one from 3-4 in teh afternoon. The rest of the day was left unscheduled.
In the resent few weeks I have been getting better at using my time energy management system and getting more things done. This requires me to plan weekly and check in daily. For some reason this day was left unplanned.
So what happened? As the quote teaches, I was very busy. But my busyness was focused on indiscriminate actions. All of them needed to be done but maybe most of them could have been done another day. This was without thought and fits Tim's first prediction-lazy thinking. According to Tim, "Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions."
Maybe that is why I felt very unproductive and down at the end of the day. I fought a war in which I won all of the small battles but yet lost the war.
Today's question is:
"Do you catch yourself when your day is full of indiscriminate actions?
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