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Yes…you are very productive….but have you missed the point???
Everyone is busy. I don’t know about you but if I ask anyone these days how they are, at least in Britain, 90% of people will respond that they are busy. Busy with work, busy with life, busy with jobs at home, busy busy busy. In fact, we take it further, if someone is NOT busy busy busy, then we might consider them to be lazy. At some point in the past, this idea of being productive, of being efficient, grew in it’s prominence in our minds and changed in our understanding of what it means. And so, being busy and productive has come to dominate the lives of so many of us. So, I want to briefly say to us all, myself very much included in this, Yes…you are very productive….but have you missed the point???
Life reminds me of one those Pay 2 win phone games at times. You know the ones. The first bit is easy and you get a tonne of points to upgrade with. The next bit is seemingly just as easy and so you upgrade more and more. But there comes a point, where the difficulty increase and the cost of upgrading increases to the point where the levels are impossible without either paying for the upgrades with real money or playing for days to earn enough points to upgrade. Our skills at planning, our efficiency, our time management, even our knowledge, understanding and capability within our work area and expertise grow and we notice the difference…
