365QOD- Day1033

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?

365QOD- Day827

"... you got to become one with the bicycle"- Tommy Hendricks

Last night I was talking with Tommy.  We started talking about the keys to success.

Tommy gave a great example.  In his example he asked the question if anyone ever learned how to ride a bicycle without falling.  The obvious answer is that no one ever learned to ride a bicycle without falling.

The effort to ride the bicycle involves falling a few times until you understand the balance required to not fall.  But once you master the balance, you become one with the bicycle.

This idea holds true for bicycle riding, book writing, cookie making, business building, etc. you become one with" it", whatever it means to you.

Today's question is:
" What are you one with?"

365QOD- Day819

"Good conversation is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. "- Anne Murrow Lindbergh

Last night I had a conversation with a new friend.  We talked about ideas.

He started telling me what he is working on.  I told him what challenges are stretching me.

In the end I felt refreshed.  My mind stretched.  But like the quote, it was hard to sleep and not think about the ideas we discussed.

Today's question is:
" Do you feel energized after a great conversation?"