People complain all the time about how busy they are. Most of them aren’t really complaining. They wear it like a badge of honor because they want you to feel bad for them and be proud of them.
Bleh. I hate that. I want to work hard and get it done. Not run around in a circle putting out fires and not accomplish a damn thing. Why would you want to be “busy?”
Show me what you’ve accomplished. Show me the work. Stop telling me how busy you are. I’d be happy as a clam to hear about how you studied three chapters, wrote a chapter for your new book, and then spent the rest of the day walking your dog and playing frisbee.
Being busy isn’t the point! It’s worse than not the point, it the exact opposite of the point.
If you need your house painted and the painter shows up to paint, but, instead of painting, he pulls out a sledgehammer and starts punching holes in your walls, he isn’t just not painting. He isn’t just wrong.
Pfft, the English language needs a word for traveling 180 degrees in the opposite direction from the right. The difference between not doing the surgery well and doing the WRONG surgery isn’t a little difference.
Talking about how busy you are is the same. It isn’t just wrong. It’s 180 degrees from right.
Be proud of the work you do, not of how long it took you to do it.
I’m picturing this conversation with my wife.
“Honey I’ve been crazy busy all day,” I say with a big smile.
“Great what’d you get done?” she asks.
“I cut the grass,” I tell her.
“What else?”
“Nothing, but I cut the grass with a pair of scissors. It looks PERFECT, and I was busy ALL DAY. I’m exhausted – can you take the kids? I’m heading to bed.”
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