Busy is Better?
ByWell, maybe not necessarily ‘busy’, but busier might be better in some sense. I have come to realize that over the past week, as my family is away. As you can see, my blogging has been light. Yet I have had more time! Does that make any sense?
Well, I have heard it said that if you want to get something done, go ask the busiest person you know. It’s not a fail proof statement, but it doest prove a simple point, namely, that the reason many people are so busy is because they actually get things done, so people come ask them to do more. Again, this is not to exalt busyness, but it is to say that oftentimes, when we have the most to do, we get the most done. And when we have the least to do, we get the least done.
That hasn’t proven to be exactly the case in this instance for me, but there is a good degree of truth in it. With more time, I begin to think I can do various other things and, inevitably, I don’t have as much time as I originally thought. Consequently, a simple practice such as blogging gets crowded out. But by what? That’s a good question, indeed.
Do you notice this at work in your own life? Do a host of activities serve to strengthen your focus and a lack of activities maybe make you too relaxed? It’s at least worth considering. Having a good balance between the two seems best to me.
1 Comments
December 17th, 2009 at 10:48 am
This is definitely the case for me. If I have a lot of time and few tasks, I get a lot less done than if I have more tasks and less time. The challenge for me, and undoubtedly for others, is to find the balance between the right number of tasks relative to time so as to avoid becoming increasingly stressed or, probably even worse, becoming sloppy/not doing a good job.