Is your life filled to overflowing? Are you busy with 1, 2, or 3 exclamation points? Why? And don’t say you don’t have any choice… one always has a choice. Our choices are based on our priorities – stated and affirmed and not stated but actions affirm. If you admit that you enjoy being busy then that’s part of your DNA but is it what you want? Is your life being consumed by your busyness? When you look back at yesterday, last month, last year what do you see?
Sooo if you are busy, what are you busy with, what is it that consumes your time? Work? Family? Hobby? In the middle of a project? Are you involved with activities that challenge and/or provide enjoyment or with those that sap the strength out of you? Busy isn’t always defined in terms of preference. And there is no negative attached to enjoying being busy. The issue really is whether you are controlling or the busyness is.
Those are a great number of questions that you are faced with when you consider ‘busy’ and your life. But they are all important considerations. No one wants to have their life controlled by outside ‘forces’ but seeking balance is difficult. Plus, there seems to be a very fine line between being too busy and having too much time on your hands. One can slip from one to the other in a what seems like a blink of the eye. Because of that tendency, I believe that one does need to consider what to do in the ‘down time’. Who are you when you aren’t busy?
Down time has a lot of advantages and a great deal that you can do to fill it… to overflowing? Some people will fill it because they don’t know what to do with down time. But you also need to think about the quality in the time. Busy can keep you so busy that you have no time to think… but down time gives you the opportunity to assess and evaluate. You really do have choices.
