I was in the OR a few days ago, and I was just watching around the room. You can’t help but notice the other people you’re working with – how they go about their business.
Some people are all over the place. Busy, busy, busy. They scurry from one place to another. They run out of the room. They run back in. They never seem to quite have a handle on what’s going on. Other people, you don’t even notice. They do their jobs, everything gets done, and it looks like they’re not doing a thing.
We seem to pride ourselves on being busy. We mistake busy for accomplishment. A busy worker is a good worker. But, busy for the sake of busy makes no sense at all. The point isn’t to be perpetually busy. The point is to get done what needs to get done and move on.
Are you busy for the sake of being busy? So you can tell everyone how busy you are like it’s a badge of honor? You’ve got to be smarter than that. You’ve got to think about the end, where you’re heading.
A runner signs up for a race. He shows up on race day in his fancy running shoes, with his deluxe water bottle backpack. Pins his number to his shirt. The starting gun fires and he proceeds to run in little circles. You say, “How are you doing?” He says, “Well, I’m busy.” It takes him 5 hours to run a 2-hour race, and everyone compliments him on keeping busy.
No. No. No.
You’ve got to be smarter.
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Brian
