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How Busy Do You Really Want to Be?
December 27th, 2021
by Bill Boyajian

Everything moves at lightening speed and we are all caught up trying to keep up.  A better way to work and live is to build some margin in your life.  Margin is the space between the limits of your capacity and your current lifestyle.  If you are stressed, there’s a reason for it.

Here are nine ways to challenge the notion of being so busy that you can’t think straight.

1)    Don’t get addicted to being active all the time.  Schedule time in your day just for you.

2)    Be content with what you currently have so you can be grateful for each day.

3)    Keep a gap between what you make and what you spend.  This will allow you to be generous.

4)    Save money for a rainy day not just because it’s wise, but because it allows you to take advantage of unique opportunities.

5)    Don’t be afraid to disappoint others who try to command your free time. 

6)    You can control your own actions by slowing down.  Slowing things down will help you speed up when you need to.

7)    Practice discipline and measures of restraint so you can stop operating on overload.

8)    Recognize that what we think we need at the moment is something that history will ultimately prove us to be naïve, if not wrong.

9)    Tailor everything you do toward long-term thinking and a life well-lived.



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