It’s easy to feel like we’re constantly going from one thing to the next.
From our tasks at work, to our responsibilities and commitments at home.
There are seemingly endless demands on our time and attention.
We can only keep up the juggling act for so long. Soon, some areas of our lives will begin to suffer neglect in favour of other areas.
But our lives are more than our work.
They are more than our social lives outside of work.
In fact, it’s helpful to see our lives as consisting of 10 interrelated domains: spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical, relational, parental, social, vocational, avocational, and financial.
All of these domains are connected. Each one affects all the others.
For example, your physical condition impacts your work; your financial state will affect your social life.
To get the life you want, you have to be touching all the domains. Only then will you have the balance you need.
How many times this week have you been asked, “How are you?” and have responded with all too familiar, “Busy!”
Whatever happened to the pat answer, “Fine?”
Our culture has become ridiculously busy and, as a consequence, many of us suffer from what can be referred to as an addiction to busyness.
We may FEEL time-poor and stressed out.
But here’s the kicker.
For many of us, we are not too busy simply because we feel societal pressure or need better time management.
It is because we are addicted to being busy.
Like all addicts, we are not crazy about the effects on our health, performance and well-being. But we like the “high” that being busy gives us.
Let me share with you four reasons why this addiction, this “too busy addiction”, is so powerful and even better than crack.