BBC - Capital - Busy: A badge of honour or a big lie? - 0 views
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idea of the “busy trap” to the overwhelming feeling many professionals have at the end of each day and week, overload is a real issue.
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But what if we’re looking at the issue in the wrong way? What if you could reframe your thinking, feel less busy and perhaps get more done?
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“Busy paints a picture of people who are either keeping themselves occupied or who don’t have the time to do other things,” Spurlock explained. “Productive describes an environment rich with goals, personal and professional achievements and wrapped in success, a place where you're actually creating something vs just doing something.”
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“Personal productivity… is the most important one, as it centres around the time that I make to spend with my family, my friends and doing things that fulfil me as a living person,”
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Financial productivity is an important one, as these are the projects that create consistent revenue
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“Being busy has somehow become a badge of honor. The prevailing notion is that if you aren’t super busy, you aren’t important or hard working,”
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“When we think of a super busy person, we think of a ringing phone, a flood of emails and a schedule that’s bursting at the seams with major projects and side-projects hitting simultaneously,” he wrote. “Such a situation inevitably leads to multi-tasking and interruptions, which are both deadly to productivity.”
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people an average of 15 minutes to return to their important projects… every time they were interrupted by e-mails, phone calls, or other messages
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“We’re so enamored with multitasking that we think we’re getting more done, even though our brains aren’t physically capable of this,”
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most productive when we manage our schedules enough to ensure that we can focus effectively on the task at hand