How you ever gotten into the trap of being busy? I know that today's culture of immediate action and results demands that we are busy, but sometimes I feel like we are busy being busy without a reason for being busy. It's an easy trap to fall into really. E-mails fill out computer screens and we feel we have to answer them immediately. When the phone rings, we switch our attention from whatever we are doing to check who is calling. I don't think the problem of being busy to be busy is a recent problem though. For as long as I can remember, I have heard the saying, " You can't see the forest for the trees". I just think the "trees" have gotten bigger nowadays and there are more of them in front of us.
When we are busy being busy, we lose our capacity to focus, we are unable to look at the "big" picture, and we are unable to have a vision for the future. Lately, I wish that I had a dollar for every time I have heard someone say, "We are just too busy to do that right now. Let's wait until later and then we will do "X"".
The problem is that if we wait until later to do "X", there might not be an opportunity left to correct "X". It may be too late.
Focus, dedication, commitment, and the ability to do the important but not urgent things are classic, tried and true principles that are worthy of our energy and pursuit now more than ever.
Sorry the blog is so short, I am busy today.
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