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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 07:44AM The Language of Busyness
We're always looking for systems. Gadgets. Tools and strategies for organizing our lives in an effort to stop saying we're so busy. But if it's true that thoughts lead to actions, and what we say and do repeatedly gives us our lives, it would also follow that what's on our minds usually comes out our mouths. Thoughts become the language we speak.
So here's a tool you might want to add to your collection if you want to stop saying "I'm too busy" ...
Stop saying it.
tagged Busyness, Busyness, work life balane | Lisa Gates
Busyness, Busyness, work life balane | Lisa Gates
Reader Comments (4)
Lisa, I love this! I'm a big fan of simple tricks of the mind that help us choose different behaviors and un-do habits that aren't serving us well anymore. This is a great example of that approach.
For me, the killer phrase is "I'm so tired." Which is of course born of the "I'm too busy." Coming to the same conclusion as you, both have been banished recently. I'll let you know how it plays it!
Tammy and Chrysula all in one day. I'm blessed. I recently retired this one: "I am just so sick of..." All of these sayings and isms and beliefs really do show up in my walking-around perspectives. They're almost more insidious and destructive than an outright "wrong" action.
It's truly a mind set that we must have for how we approach our days as well as how we leverage our gadgets.
We were out to dinner last night with family and we were all pretty well "device behaved". But as dinner wound down and we were all getting ready to depart, it was pretty amusing to see 3 out of 5 of us quietly check our e-mails before standing up. As I look back, I guess that was reasonable as there was no device use during dinner.
We all need our personal - and group - ground rules. My suggestions here