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Some people are too busy to be successful in their careers and to enjoy their lives. And they don’t know it! If you think you’re busy, I hope this article caught your attention long enough for you to finish reading it. You are about to find out a few truths about being busy that can IMPROVE YOUR LIFE if you face them.

“Busy” is not necessarily a good trait. “Busy” is not an excuse. “Busy” is not even a proper answer to the greeting “How are you today.”  Well, perhaps it is sometimes but not the amount of times you will use that term in your life as a response to that question.

“Busy” is an overused word in everyone’s vocabulary. It’s so overused that it has lost its true meaning in today’s practiced vocabulary (not by the dictionary meaning).

A brain surgeon in the middle of an operation is busy and should not be disturbed.

When the local bomb squad is in the middle of deactivating a bomb, they are busy.

When I’m in the middle of writing this article, I am busy.

When someone passes you in the hallway and says how are you and you respond busy, you’re not.

When you’re fluttering around your office doing everything and accomplishing nothing, are you busy? Well, perhaps you are busy but you certainly aren’t doing anything useful. And at the end of the day you’ll be the first to realize that when you stop and take a breath and say “where did the day go”.

Take out a pencil and piece of paper right now and fill in this sentence as quickly and specifically as you can: When I say I am busy that means _____________.

Now read what you just wrote. Does it really have any substance? Consider how being busy is helping you to reach your goals, to achieve success as you define it or to even put in a productive day at your job. Is being busy all of the time getting you those things? If you are so busy that you don’t have a moment to think creatively, a moment to say hello to someone, a moment to meet someone new, then are you leading a successful career and life? Are you accomplishing your job duties to the utmost degree? Or are you just busy?

Here are a few myths about being busy that you should be aware of (because when you’re conscious of what you’re doing, you can come to realizations and make changes that will improve your career, job and life): Read the rest of this entry »

Failure is best accomplished quickly. Yes…failure can be an accomplishment. Really!

Consider this scenario…

Do you remember how you learned to ride a bicycle as a child?

You got on the bike, fell, tipped over, got some scrapes, looked ridiculous at first and then…you rode the bike and kept on riding it for years to come with no major mishaps. Making all those mistakes at first and correcting them quickly enabled you to get on with your goal of riding that bicycle. You didn’t drag the process out because you were passionate about learning to ride that bike.

This same principle can apply to many aspects of your life, including your career and job. You ARE going to Read the rest of this entry »