Being Busy Does Not Equal Being Productive
Hi, maybe I can help you with something here… TIME MANAGEMENT. If you take a couple of minutes to read this I’m sure the ideas you will get will save that time MANY times over and make you FAR more productive.
Being “busy” can destroy your ability to get things done. Let me say that again…
Being “busy” can destroy your ability to get things done.
How many people do you know who are so busy being busy that they never seem to get anything worthwhile done? Does that describe you, maybe even just a little bit?
Being busy all the time, through necessity, is a curse. Being busy all the time, for the sake of it, is just sheer madness.
Continual busy-ness eventually leads to stress, particularly if results are minimal. You see, it will get to a point where something has to give way. It’s like filling a balloon with air. Eventually no more air will fit inside the balloon and it will do the only thing it can. It will burst.
It’s OK to have busy periods through each day, each week, each month and each year. However, you also need time to relax. Time to re-charge the batteries.
People who are continuously busy over long periods suffer from two main problems:
1 – they have difficulty saying “no” to anyone
2 – they have difficulty delegating tasks to others
Let’s look at each in turn.
