The new successful isn’t busy, it’s unbusy.
Being the “busy executive” has been seen by too many as the epitome of success and it’s leading people to live wildly unbalanced lives.
There are 168 hours in the week. Minus 8 hours / night for sleeping = 112 hours. Minus 2 hours / day for eating and food prepping = 98 hours. Minus 1 hour / day for exercise and wellbeing = 105 hours.
Which leaves 15 hours / day for work, relationships, personal growth, and fun.
15 hours / day.
How is it that we’re too busy for family? For friends? For reading? For writing? For learning? For fun? How is it that we manage to fill so much of our days with busy-ness?
15 hours / day should be plenty.
Even on the days when you work 8 hours, that’s still 7 hours left for your other priorities!
It’s as if the equation for success is: busy = important = successful. And so if busy goes up, important goes up. And if important goes up, successful goes up. But, does it really?
If time is our most valuable asset—then how can we be rich if we’re time-poor?
If it’s true that time is our most valuable resource, then shouldn’t time-rich be the ultimate rich?