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Make the time for what matters most by breaking up with busy
Overbooking and under-sleeping have almost become status symbols, and having it all seems to be synonymous with doing it all, yet what do we really accomplish with so much busyness? Yvonne Tally wants to give you back your life by helping you break the busyness habit. She offers realistic, step-by-step, and even fun ways to get off the busyness hamster wheel and reclaim your time. Yvonne shows how the benefits of living a more balanced life can improve your longevity and spiritual well-being. She outlines ways to shift and calm your mind, learn how to say no, and create your own "busy-busting solutions."
With fifty-two refreshers and reminders, Breaking Up with Busy provides incremental ways to change habits, transform thinking, and reconnect with your unique, personal sense of play and pleasure. Realistic, step-by-step, and even fun ways to get off the busy-ness hamster wheel and reclaim your time - and your life Yvonne Tally leads meditation and mindfulness programs for corporations, private groups, and individuals in Silicon Valley and throughout the United States. She is an NLP Master Practitioner and cofounded Poised Inc., a fitness and lifestyle company. She lives in Northern California. CHAPTER 1
IT'S A BAD RELATIONSHIP
Introduction
In this chapter, you'll discover the signs of your brand of Busy and the pitfalls of the relationship you have with Busy. After exposing both, you'll be ready to take your first step to breaking up!
15 Signs That You Need to Break Up with Busy
You have a sense that things are just not right.
At the end of the day you feel worn out and foggy.
You have a mixed sense of not doing much and yet doing too much.
You have resigned yourself to feeling "…this is normal."
You have a growing awareness that you are faking happy.
You blame others for the demands on your schedule.
You eat at least one meal each day standing up, on the go, or while driving.
Guilty pleasures are not an option; there is no time for frivolity.
Your health has changed; gaining or losing weight, skin issues, feelings of stress, anxiousness, and irritability.
Lifestyle habits have changed; lack of sleep, insomnia, low libido.
Things you once enjoyed taking time for now feel like inconveniences.
Your co-workers are calling you too much.
Your kids are calling you by your first name.
Your family has posted a missing person report.
STEP AND REPEAT, only without the designer dress and paparazzi -- just you, your list, and an hour behind your schedule!
Ok – so a bit of fun on the last four Busy signs. Nonetheless, Busy is not to be taken lightly. If you answered yes to at least five of these conditions you've got a demanding case of Busy. Being Busy is like dating the bad-boy; exciting, provocatively unnerving, dangerous, and inevitably leading to heartbreak. Except being in a relationship with Busy will lead to a break of a different kind; breaking down your health. Ignoring the signs of Busy is easy in the beginning of the relationship; its new, and all seems possible. But then, you get into the STEP and REPEAT of Busyness, and undoubtedly your anxious rushing will lead to illnesses, mistakes, and even accidents.
The Cost of Your Health in This Busy Relationship
Living with Busy is not as harmless as it may seem – it negatively and consistently impacts your health. The fifteen signs of being Busy could be indications of innumerable discontents. Being Busy doesn't happen in a bubble; Busy behavior trickles down and ripples out. The energy of these behaviors affects everyone with whom you come into contact, and the more time you spend with these people -- your kids, partners, spouses, and co-workers -- the more they will be affected. As parents, we are teaching our children how to be Busy. As professionals,
Overbooking and under-sleeping have almost become status symbols, and having it all seems to be synonymous with doing it all, yet what do we really accomplish with so much busyness? Yvonne Tally wants to give you back your life by helping you break the busyness habit. She offers realistic, step-by-step, and even fun ways to get off the busyness hamster wheel and reclaim your time. Yvonne shows how the benefits of living a more balanced life can improve your longevity and spiritual well-being. She outlines ways to shift and calm your mind, learn how to say no, and create your own "busy-busting solutions."
With fifty-two refreshers and reminders, Breaking Up with Busy provides incremental ways to change habits, transform thinking, and reconnect with your unique, personal sense of play and pleasure. Realistic, step-by-step, and even fun ways to get off the busy-ness hamster wheel and reclaim your time - and your life Yvonne Tally leads meditation and mindfulness programs for corporations, private groups, and individuals in Silicon Valley and throughout the United States. She is an NLP Master Practitioner and cofounded Poised Inc., a fitness and lifestyle company. She lives in Northern California. CHAPTER 1
IT'S A BAD RELATIONSHIP
Introduction
In this chapter, you'll discover the signs of your brand of Busy and the pitfalls of the relationship you have with Busy. After exposing both, you'll be ready to take your first step to breaking up!
15 Signs That You Need to Break Up with Busy
You have a sense that things are just not right.
At the end of the day you feel worn out and foggy.
You have a mixed sense of not doing much and yet doing too much.
You have resigned yourself to feeling "…this is normal."
You have a growing awareness that you are faking happy.
You blame others for the demands on your schedule.
You eat at least one meal each day standing up, on the go, or while driving.
Guilty pleasures are not an option; there is no time for frivolity.
Your health has changed; gaining or losing weight, skin issues, feelings of stress, anxiousness, and irritability.
Lifestyle habits have changed; lack of sleep, insomnia, low libido.
Things you once enjoyed taking time for now feel like inconveniences.
Your co-workers are calling you too much.
Your kids are calling you by your first name.
Your family has posted a missing person report.
STEP AND REPEAT, only without the designer dress and paparazzi -- just you, your list, and an hour behind your schedule!
Ok – so a bit of fun on the last four Busy signs. Nonetheless, Busy is not to be taken lightly. If you answered yes to at least five of these conditions you've got a demanding case of Busy. Being Busy is like dating the bad-boy; exciting, provocatively unnerving, dangerous, and inevitably leading to heartbreak. Except being in a relationship with Busy will lead to a break of a different kind; breaking down your health. Ignoring the signs of Busy is easy in the beginning of the relationship; its new, and all seems possible. But then, you get into the STEP and REPEAT of Busyness, and undoubtedly your anxious rushing will lead to illnesses, mistakes, and even accidents.
The Cost of Your Health in This Busy Relationship
Living with Busy is not as harmless as it may seem – it negatively and consistently impacts your health. The fifteen signs of being Busy could be indications of innumerable discontents. Being Busy doesn't happen in a bubble; Busy behavior trickles down and ripples out. The energy of these behaviors affects everyone with whom you come into contact, and the more time you spend with these people -- your kids, partners, spouses, and co-workers -- the more they will be affected. As parents, we are teaching our children how to be Busy. As professionals,