Leading Thought: Don’t be busy, be productive. The difference? Results.
It’s an excuse that I hear all too often: “I’m busy,” “things have been so busy,” “it’s just busy, busy, busy.” I hear it so frequently these days that I cringe at every utterance of the word. Even looking at the word, let alone hearing or saying it, seems to incite a visceral reaction with a bitter aftertaste left in its wake. It is that disgustingly bad. Why? The word has such a profound emptiness, yet such a glistening and gilded nature to it. In many cases, it’s almost like it’s being used a status symbol to inflate one’s own ego or to somehow validate their importance in the eyes of others.
How many people do you know seem to just be perpetually busy? They’re always in meetings or working on a project, but something feels strikingly absent. How many times, in the off chance you get ahold of them, do you inquire about what they’ve been up to? However, when you press a bit harder, the conversation tends to veer off and fall into an awkward void. “Been busy.” Busy? Been busy with what? What are you doing? What has been accomplished? Their typical answer: “stuff” or “a lot.” The real answer: nothing. Being busy means that you have a great deal to do or are occupied in some fashion. It doesn’t mean you are achieving anything of value. If anything, being busy means that the only thing you are doing is wasting time and energy in stagnation. That’s why it is such an empty, gilded word. It sounds like you’re going somewhere, but the sad reality is that you’re stuck in a state of being endlessly and aimlessly occupied.
Nevertheless, it doesn’t have to be this way. Instead of being busy, be productive. If you’re busy, then you’re merely existing and you’re not getting anywhere. If you’re productive, then you are taking action and generating results. You’re trying, you’re experiencing, and you’re learning. You’re not just existing, you are living. There’s an old quote from FDR where he states, “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” Most people in the world are too afraid to try something - to try whatever it is that they truly want to do - so they use the excuse of being busy to make it look like they are trying. Everyone else is busy existing while life passes by and they have nothing to show for it. Don’t be everyone else.
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