I would say in many ways I am a recovering busyness addict. I wrote a prior blog a little more than 2 years ago on “Busyness Addict”. And I decided to revise this topic and blog since these issues seem front and center for me. At least I have noticed it has popped back into my language. That brought up this idea, am I busy enough? And just how much it has started showing up in my language. Of course, it could have been there all along and now I finally started to take notice of it. And wonder, just how much is busy enough?
Whether someone asks about work or my weekend, my reply has been some version of fine or good but busy. I started noticing no matter what I said I seem to tag busy on it. Regardless of if this is true or not, I had to ask myself why I am falling back into old habits of either having to be busy all the time or having to prove to others I am busy enough. The idea of recovering from busyness addiction may be similar to other issues. In the sense, it might …
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