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Say yes to less
“Are you busy?” seems to be one of the most common questions people ask socially and around work. “I’m active” is my answer, as I talked about with my friend Kay Scorah on yesterday’s weekly WhatComesNext.Live show.
Kay and I seem to have a similar approach. We are always active, but not often busy. When we are not working directly with clients, we are active, reading, listening, learning for our minds, as well as being active in our bodies and spirit.
I am active from when I wake in the morning until I sleep at night, my mind, my body, always active. Am I “busy” though? In terms of “paid work”, no, I am not “busy”. I could easily double or more the amount of clients I work with and still fit them into the diary, but I choose not to.
So many of the clients I work with though, are busy, so one of the first and continuing things they work with me on around their leadership, performance and effectiveness is how to consciously build their work and life structure so they work on what’s important more than what is urgent.
I come back again and again to topics related to this in my daily writing, but today let me add a learning from another writer, around “Say Yes to Less”.
First, a few blogs on “busy” you may wish to peruse:
