Stop Saying You're "TOO BUSY"

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Understand that there is a vast difference between being busy, which is filling up those 24 hours you have in a day, compared to productivity, which is being efficient with those 24 hours. A busy person always has something going on, whether that is work or simply sleeping on the couch. They aren’t necessarily productive with the time they are busy, though, and they are often inaccessible. A productive person knows how to maximize two things: the activities they get paid for and the activities they don’t get paid for. This delineation is important to make when maximizing your productivity and accessibility, so you can prioritize the activities you get paid for, as well as those activities which you enjoy the most. Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The word busy is what was the catalyst for me to understand how to be active and available.
0:07.7	This is the flavor. The word busy does not indicate what I am active. See busy means you're
0:14.3	unavailable. So like I have friends that are high broke sick on their mom's couch and they're
0:20.3	the busiest people I know because they're so unavailable and they're so inactive. And so I think when
0:25.6	you shift your perspective to activity, you start to work within the realm of what helps people
0:32.0	manage their time. And the first step of managing time is to understand time itself. Meaning we have
0:39.3	24 hours of man-made constructive time a day. You have activities within the context of those 24
0:47.0	hours. Sleep is an activity. Working out is an activity. Family, friends, activities you get paid for.
0:54.8	Activities you don't get paid for. Activities you have planned. Activities you don't have plans
0:59.7	adaptable activities for when you do create a plan and God laughs at you and it doesn't turn out
1:04.8	the way you think it should. And of course, you're sleep. So once I started with the word busy and
1:10.1	which is no accident, I believe all coincidences happen, the word busy is what was the catalyst for me
1:16.4	to understand how to be active and available. So remember there's no such thing as work. There's
1:22.5	no such thing as being busy. Busy is being not being accessible. Work is a nuance in our mind.
1:30.4	Right, I pay right now a million dollars if you guys could get the Padres to let me play baseball.
1:35.7	But they paid with Chateau 300 million to play. Is that his work? Why would that be my work? Why would
1:42.0	I pay for that? There's activity you get paid for. Activities you don't get paid for.
1:45.6	He's studying paying attention to and giving intention with productivity, accessibility,
1:50.3	and gratitude in mind. We now are utilizing the man made construct of time in the most efficient,
1:56.7	effective, and statistically successful way geared to what we want though. Not what other people want
2:02.0	once missing or would don't want, geared to what we want. And so the first step is to study your
2:07.1	calendar because it also not only creates efficiencies, but it allows you to remember, remind, and
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