Neuroscience has proven that being busy all the time is a product of our brain, trying to create ‘familiar’ activities in order to feel safe. Psychology claims that being busy is a creation of the ego, trying to prove itself of worth.
So staying always busy may be an unconscious pattern, a habit that fulfills a mind programming that may have become irrelevant to our current true needs. in reality being busy may just be being lazy! Lazy to challenge and beat your obsolete programming in order to get to think & do the things that really matter!
And how would you do this ? By putting busy-ness into the light of consciousness: Stay still for a while. Make a list of each Activity that makes you busy and ask yourself :
1. How is it linked with your end-purpose ?
2. How does it build your strengths and abilities to become who you need to become ?
3. What is the real mind-need satisfied with it ? Be sincere to yourself: is it the need to please others? To feel safe and important ? To avoid being alone with yourself?
4. What do you gain by doing it ? What do you lose?
5. How could you abort / outsource / replace / reframe it to meet your goals?
