Beware Of Junk Busyness
Carry paper, look busy......
One of my clients is mental.
Well, actually quite a few of them are mental, but one is particularly mental.
Every Monday morning they’ll have some crazy story about some disaster that happened over the weekend involving some DIY mistake, a job that didn’t really need doing, or a new idea they’ve come up with that is going to take four times as long as they thought, cost ten times as much, and has dug them into a mad hole of stress and chaos.
My idea of a nightmare, but for some reason, they seem to love it?!
We have an inability to just be.
If there’s a second of spare time, we fill it with doom scrolling or fannying about.
We make simple tasks overly complicated because in doing so, we create the chaos required to fill any dead time and prevent us from having to be alone with our thoughts.
Everything these days has to involve a routine. Social media influencers love a fucking routine.
Remember when it was just called waking up, putting your pants on and brushing your teeth?
Next time you think to yourself:
‘I’ll just quickly……….(insert pointless task that didn’t need doing, you just thought that shit up to avoid talking with your missus, playing with the kids, or doing something that’s actually important)’
Stop
Wait
Ask yourself does this actually need doing right now or am I doing it to appear busy?
Sit the fuck down and just be for a bit.
Remember
We’re called human beings, not human doings.
GmfL