“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates
My latest book is available to download. Download your copy now and read the whole book or whet your appetite with the intro (below).
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Project Delay and the Pandemic:
This project was nearly ready to release before the Covid pandemic hit the world. I held off doing so as it didn’t feel the right time to release a book on this subject when people were finding themselves at home more than ever. However, I am now keen to move onto new projects and release this into the world.
I have updated it further during the last year and feel it’s now a more rounded read. As with my other books, I have tried to make as much of the content evergreen as I can, so even if you download it now and delay the reading of it, it will not age anytime soon.
Sample Chapter (Intro)
The Tyranny of Busy
Look up for a moment, take in what is happening around you. What do you see?
A sea of calm, happy faces perhaps. All focused on helping each other make the world a better place, in some small but meaningful way. Trying their best to leave positive footprints on the earth. Working hard but balancing that with ample time to rest. Making time for those that matter most. Being present and grateful for this moment. Totally in tune with life.
Or is the picture a little different?
Is everyone rushing around? Hustling and bustling. Running from commitment to commitment. Complaining they ‘don’t have time’. Not at all present, always thinking ahead, to whatever they are rushing to next.
I’m guessing the picture you see is closer to example two.
Everyone seems so busy.
Busy on the phone.
Busy juggling and multi-tasking.
Busy trying to keep up.
Busy trying not to drown under the mountain that is the latest ‘urgent’.
Mostly it seems, busy being busy.
How many of us find ourselves fighting this daily battle with busyness in our lives? Feeling like all our time is accounted for, before we really get started with our day. Busyness, it seems, has reached epidemic proportions.
We’re busy, but what is getting done?
So where is all this collective busyness getting us? Are we making the world a better place?
Are we curing diseases?
Are we averting human disasters?
Is being busy meaning we get to tuck our kids in at night, reading them bedtime stories?
Is all this busy meaning we get to spend quality time with our friends and loved ones?
Is being busy meaning we get to make time for our hobbies and passion projects?
Is busy meaning we get more quality work done? Quality, not just sheer quantity.
Is busy leading us to less stress? Is it meaning we live healthy, balanced lives, full of adventures and positive challenges?
If the answer is yes, great — let’s celebrate and keep on with all this busyness. Let’s keep engaging with it. Let’s keep chasing it.
If the answer is no, perhaps we need to step back and ask a bigger question:
Why are we spending time invested in busy, if busy isn’t working for us?
That’s what this book is all about. Identifying the challenges we all face in our days that lead us to busy. It’s about how we can tap into another way of living our lives. How we can achieve our goals, with less stress. How we can strip back to the essential. How we can keep the margins, and white space, in our lives whilst still getting plenty done. How we can filter the signal from the noise. How we can reconnect with our ability to block out distractions and live a focused life. Because a focused life is a good life.
How this book is broken down
This book has several main sections. The first of these concentrates on the challenges, why we are where we are. The second section deals with tools, habits and solutions that can support us get to a less busy place in our lives. We close by reflecting on one of our most important assets of all, time and its place in the busy conundrum.
Are you ready for a life less busy?