How Being Busy All the Time is Hurting You – plus 3 ways to stop

You're reading How Being Busy All the Time is Hurting You – plus 3 ways to stop, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. When you catch up with a friend you haven’t talked to in awhile, what’s one of the first things out of your mouth when they ask you how you are? Is it something along the lines of “good, but SO busy”? What if the most interesting thing about us wasn’t how busy we are? We live in a culture of more. So many people want to make more money, buy more things, and get more done. I often write and speak about productivity, and the question I get asked the most is “how do I do more?” Clients and audience members aren’t asking how to get more done in less time, they want to know how to fill in every last second of the day with action. But here’s the thing, just because you fill up your day with activities doesn’t mean that this is the most productive use of your time. At some point you’re going run out of focus and flip from accomplishing your to do list, to getting lost in a cat video binge fest or a non stop social media scroll. And then, on top of not making meaningful progress, all that busyness takes a huge toll on your mental health. The American Psychiatric Association reports that we’re 39% more anxious than we were last year, and yet we continue to expect to get more done in a day than can be accomplished in a mont...
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