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I am your host, Alex San Felipe. When people ask you how you're doing, do you normally respond by saying the words, I'm just so busy?

Almost everyone we know uses the word busy as their default response.

Today, I'm excited to bring you another solo episode of the podcast to talk about how to stop being so busy.

This is a topic that I'm very passionate about because I'm noticing more and more people that I love in the entrepreneurship world and in my personal life while they're going through life busy instead of truly just living

and enjoying their lives. Today I'm going to share how I began to live a life that was proactive

instead of one that is reactive and how you can do the same. For links to resources that will be

mentioned during this episode, please visit CreatingaBrand.com slash 124. And now let's get into talking

about how we can stop being so busy so we can enjoy our lives more.

I want to talk about an experience that I recently had. It was actually just the other day,

I ran into someone that I hadn't seen in a while, and they immediately asked me the signature question that we all

ask, right? Hey, how are you doing? And I immediately responded with the word busy and obviously

went on to elaborate a little bit more. And they responded with some variation of, oh, I hear you,

me too. I'm busy just like you are.

And this really bothered me when I was walking away from the conversation.

I was really starting to think about it.

And it's because I started questioning myself.

It wasn't because the other person I ran into, but when I was thinking about me,

I was thinking about how my default response was to tell someone that I'm busy.

When in reality, I don't know is that I'm

actually busy quote on quote which we'll get into in a little bit here but I was really

questioning why was this my default response and so I decided to do a bit of a deep dive on

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