Busyness isn’t just a problem for individuals. It infects entire companies. Organizations that are overcommitted have: Too many goals and not enough clarity on their few priorities Unnecessary meetings trying to manage all of the projects Too much complexity which leads to customer confusion Worst of all, your company’s overcommitment to too many […]
Since I published Gettin’ (un)Busy, I’ve had the chance to present to thousands of people and to have hundreds of individual conversations about stress and busyness. I’ve had countless people share their biggest concern with me. Here’s what they say: “If I stop being busy, won’t people (co-workers, family, friends, etc.) think I’m lazy?” […]
“I know that I’m too busy…but I don’t have time to change anything.” If you’re like most high achievers, you have more commitments than you have capacity. In other words, you’re busy. Busyness is an attempt to get more out of life by squeezing more into it. But it doesn’t work. Most people don’t think […]
Do you feel like you have too much to do and not enough time? It’s common when you feel like that to think that you need to practice better time management. But time management is not the solution that busy people need. So, how can you know if you’re too busy? Here are five signs.…
Before a keynote address I was giving, I was talking with audience members. One of the participants said to me, “You’re the guy who’s talking to us about being too busy, right?” I told him that I was. He said, “Why in the world do you care how busy I am?” Here’s […]
Taking a week off from work can be stressful–especially when you come back to work. You feel like you have to catch up immediately. You feel guilty because you took time off work. You feel overwhelmed by how far behind you are. All of these feelings are normal for high achievers. But returning […]
When the quarantine started, a lot of people said to me, “I can finally beat busyness.” But for many people, the opposite has happened. In fact, these weeks of social distancing may have caused you to be busier. One reason is that you’ve taken on more projects during this time: You started fixing up your […]
As life begins to go to “normal” after the quarantine, there are three mistakes that high achievers can make. These mistakes will make it more difficult for you to accomplish your highest priorities. And they’ll keep you stuck in the past instead of moving forward. Here’s a hint: going back to “normal” should NOT be […]
I keep hearing entrepreneurs and leaders say that they want to “get back to the way things were.” Sure, it would be great to go back to a pre-pandemic world. But was your old life what you wanted it to be? What if your old life sucked? Life before the outbreak was filled with […]