Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast. Kelly here. And my question for you is, are you busy?

My second question is, with what? What's keeping you so busy? Today's episode

is all about how to opt out of the glorification of busyness and being busy. I've talked about

this before when I did an episode on opting out of being busy and bothered. And I think it's time

we revisit this again to talk about

the fact that we live in a culture that is that reinforces busyness that rewards the people

who are busy. You see it on social media. It's like, what do you do in a day? And it's people

who've done like 50 million things in their day.

They have gotten up at 4 a.m. They've run five miles. They've cooked a gourmet breakfast.

They've sewn their own clothing. And then they've shown up and done like an eight hour workday.

And then they've come home and cooked another meal and like cleaned their apartment or their

house. And you're thinking to yourself,

where do you get that energy from? And maybe that's just me. I don't got energy like that.

But we revere people whose days are absolutely packed and full. And there is nothing wrong with doing

the things that you love or being busy. I think that's inevitable when

you're a human being. But what I do want to talk about today is the glorification of busyness.

That is busyness becoming an excuse? You know, we've talked about generosity already and how

sometimes we can leverage generosity in a way that's not healthy.

We think we're being generous, but we're really have some ulterior motives.

We're using it just to stop ourselves from really connecting with folks.

Well, one could argue that it's the same thing with busyness, that keeping busy often can be a great

thing, but can tip into struggle living and can keep us avoiding the things in life that we need

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