I do not enjoy being “busy”. As a matter of fact I fiercely resist it because it robs me from my personal time.
Tim Ferriss talks a lot about being busy and his aversion to it and I have whole heartedly jumped onto the band wagon.
“A good man will not waste himself upon mean and discreditable work or be busy merely for the sake of being busy. Neither will he, as you imagine, become so involved in ambitious schemes that he will have continually to endure their ebb and flow.” – Seneca
This is a quote Tim posted a while back and also has several articles around the subject and goes so far as to say being busy is akin to being lazy (gasp!).
Right now my schedule is so full and it is certainly too busy for me. That has really been playing with my sense of peace and calm…another side effect of not having my personal time.
Yesterday morning I realized that I am resisiting everything I have to do for fear of being too busy. Once I realized that little nugget, I started working on my self talk… all day I kept reminding myself to flow.
But I’m still feeling stressed.
When I finally acknowledged and then accepted that it was it was stress that I was feeling, a Tony Robbins nugget of wisdom popped into my head…”If you’re an achiever you probably call it stress. Stress is fear.”
Huh. So then the next obvious question was, “What is my fear”? That was easy, I know I’m afraid of not getting everything done on my to do list.
Now to go a little deeper I asked myself why? (Why always takes us deeper.)
Why am I afraid of not getting everything done? Because I’m sabotaging myself with my fear of being too busy … so I’m resisiting what I have to do and at the same time I am afraid of not getting everything done.
Little wonder I’m stressed!
Today I will continue to flow and take things as they come.
But I’m also going to remember to lighten up and not look at my to-do list so fervently.
After all, life is too important to take seriously.