723: Busyness Leads to Bad Decisions
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today we're taking a look at some powerful research supporting the fact that busyness leads to bad decisions and, most importantly, what we can do about it.
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Here's the article referenced in today's episode.
"When we get caught up in a time scarcity trap of busyness, a panicked firefighting mode, we might only have the capacity to focus on the most immediate, often low-value tasks right in front of us rather than the big project or the long-range strategic thinking that would help keep us out of the tunnel in the first place."
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:07.2 | Primal Potential is about you. |
| 0:09.5 | Your ability to change is not defined by yesterday and doesn't need to wait until tomorrow. |
| 0:15.9 | Your transformation is now. |
| 0:19.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:22.1 | Welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | I am Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:27.7 | Thanks so much for spending. |
| 0:29.2 | Your time with me especially if you are someone who considers yourself busy. |
| 0:38.6 | I did an episode on busyness a while back now. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm going to link it up in the show notes. |
| 0:43.4 | I think it was episode 587 and it was called busy is BS. |
| 0:50.7 | And I talked about how I've really tried to stop using that word busy. |
| 0:56.9 | My days are full. |
| 0:58.1 | I am not saying that not using the word busy means that I have all sorts of idle time |
| 1:03.7 | because I definitely don't. |
| 1:05.9 | But I believe that too many people are using busy as a crutch or I get out of jail free |
| 1:14.8 | card and not taking ownership of how they spend their time not leveraging the fact that |
| 1:24.4 | if how your schedule is currently structured isn't working for your life or your goals |
| 1:29.8 | that you can change it. |
| 1:31.4 | And we're taking a different approach to this topic of busyness today based on an article |
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