I read a quote on Twitter today that went something like "success comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it". An initial reaction to these apparently wise words might be "Great, I don't have to try and be successful. I can just make myself busy and it will happen."
Ummmm..... Is it just me or is there a major flaw in this proposition?
It is very easy to be busy. It's easy to find things to do, especially in this age of technology, e-mails, web browsing, networking.... There is just so much we can do to keep ourselves busy. Yet, I can't help noticing, from my experience in all kinds of work situations, the busiest people are not necessarily the most productive. So I wonder what would happen if we were to make a habit of stepping back and just checking what exactly it is we are doing when we are "busy".
Using NLP skills to consciously observe and track our own patterns of behaviour I wonder what kind of short effective routines we could build into our day to make sure our activity is productive.
I have a hunch if you maintain more control over how and what you do when you are busy you might actually find yourself becoming more productive and less busy. And as you become less busy becoming even more successful.
I wonder what kind of changes in the quality of life arise when you allow yourself to have still time, time doing nothing. What if being busy was escaping from the greater challenge of being still with oneself? What if being still with oneself opened up a whole new level of consciousness beyond your imagination? What if all those things that the ancient sages said about meditation, stillness and self realisation turned out to be true just because you stopped being busy long enough to notice?
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