“How are you? How’s life?”
“Good, busy”
A few years ago I began to realize that I was mostly responding to inquires of how I was and how life was going with the catch all phrase: good, busy. Which in a sense was redundant, as at the time I believed (as most of society) that being busy was a good way to live. I saw my busy-ness as an accomplishment, something to be proud of, something to maintain, to improve by becoming busier. I congratulated myself on fitting more and more into an hour and more busy hours into a day.
But at somepoint more is just more. More activities and interactions, create the potential for more stress and unease. The more that I was attempting to fit into a day, the more often I found myself running late, feeling overwhelmed and under rested.
I had not realized the importance of having daily “unscheduled” time, in which I could authentically and organically do or not do. This manifested into time in which I could read, write, walk, bathe, create, meditate, stretch, nap, day dream…
I began to investigate how I scheduled my time and viewed the activity of filling my day as a opportunity to do just that… Fill my day, but not busy my day.
I began to take the adjective of busy out of my vocabulary as I realized that by just changing how I viewed my day as full instead of busy I felt less frantic, less busy, and more fulfilled.
I began to consciously schedule less into my day and I realized that my days were still full. Full of health, connection and inner peace. And surprisingly in my less busy schedule I was able to accomplish more.
What is your current relationship to busy?
What are you filling your day with?
What are you filling your mind with?
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