Are You Really That Busy?
Mark LeBusque
Humans Leading Humans - The Human Manager Academy Founder - Leadership Coach/Mentor and Facilitator - Author - Speaker- Podcaster
When did you last speak or hear these two words
‘I’m Busy………’?
Do you even think before you say them or have you become so robotic that they are programmed to appear as soon as you open your mouth??
What about when you decide to infect others with them and anoint them as busy by starting a conversation with “I know you’re busy but……………”
When did busy become a thing, a throwaway line, a badge of honour, a suit of armour, or even a protective mechanism??
Some say it’s a habit - perhaps a habit forged by something more sinister than just a throwaway line.?
Where does choice come into the equation? Or does the concept of importance v urgency rear its head??
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Where do terms like ‘doing more with less’ and ongoing organisational activities such as restructures, redundancies, and combining roles come into the busyness epidemic?
In her article called The disease of being busy, Sonja van den Bosch states that Technology is partly to blame and the lines between work and home have become blurred. We have too much information and too much pressure. Television, emails, text messages, social media, never-ending notifications pinging on every device you own…….
Dr. Michael Marmot, a British epidemiologist, found there are two types of busyness. The most damaging is busyness without control, which mostly affects the disadvantaged in our communities, and the busyness we control. The latter is the sickness we bring to ourselves. Self-created stress.
There are many ways we create this illusion of busyness and human I challenge you to ponder the following questions:
Gotta go human because I’m ‘out of control’ and really busy right now……….
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1 年Great piece.
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1 年Message to self, as much as to others: Don't confuse movement for progress. i.e What does busy mean?
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1 年"busy" has become the response for "how are you" Maybe I will start asking - are you healthy and productive ?? Thanks for posting Mark LeBusque
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1 年Totally agree. So sick of people saying they are too busy to do something. Just say it like it is “it’s not a priority for me now”. I guarantee if you were told you’d won an overseas holiday leaving tomorrow you’d find time to be less busy. Lol ??