Whenever somebody asks me "Hey! How's life going!?" I almost always without fail reply. "Super busy, but great!"I do this because saying "oh you know, things are super laid back and easy right now." somehow seems equal to saying "I'm a lazy bum who has no work ethic and just sits around on my ass every day."
Where along the way did we as a society suddenly decide busy is better, that busy means you're successful, and that busy is a good thing?
Now don't get me wrong, I was a self employed college student for years… I understand busy. I know there are seasons of your life where it just can't be helped. But I do think a lot of times we don't understand or value personal downtime as much as we should anymore.
But like Kate was talking about in Monday's kick ass post, as creative people, busy can simply suck us dry and take over our lives. We NEED that down time to relax, recharge, be inspired and have quiet time to work.
No one is going to carve out that time in our lives for us. It has to be a choice. We have to choose to say no to one more item in our schedule and protect our personal creative time.
It comes down to this… would you rather lead a busy life, or a productive one? Busy people spend their lives running around looking like they are being productive, but in the end they never spend enough time in one place focusing on any one task to be productive. Productive people spend their time fiddling in their garage with stuff that interests them until they've built the worlds first personal computer. The choice is yours. :)
Here's a short awesome video from Thrash Lab talking about this very same thing!
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