You're Not Busy, You're Emotionally Overwhelmed

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• Author: Art of Accomplishment
• Full Title: You're Not Busy, You're Emotionally Overwhelmed
• Category: #articles
• Summary: You aren't really busy; you're emotionally overwhelmed by a sense of time urgency.
  When you stop worrying about the future and stay present, the urgency fades.
  Do one thing at a time and create space to calm the overwhelm.
• URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsCdqTZ1zXA

Highlights

• I was in a company where we're implementing this thing called Fivestar meetings. And Fivestar meetings is basically a way to make sure all of your meetings are really great. (View Highlight)
  • Note: What is Five Star? News to look into this
• We're going to talk about what time scarcity is, where it comes from, and what you can do about it in your life.
  What I see is what's really happening is that it's usually almost always about emotional overwhelm. (View Highlight)
• Because we’re present. Yes. But in that time scarcity thing, what we are is we’re in the future. And so that’s the other big component of time scarcity: we are in the future. We’re thinking about what we have to do next. (View Highlight)
• And so we jump into our phones because there we’re not thinking about the future. Ah, relief! I don’t have to think about the future. (View Highlight)
• Time scarcity is almost always a response to stress. And stress, we like to think, is that we have too many things to do and not enough time. But stress is often about not feeling our emotions. (View Highlight)
• So even using something like connection, something that we teach in the connection course, the more connected you feel, the less time scarcity you feel.
  So the emotional when you're chasing the pickleball, you're feeling really connected to that moment. And even if your laundry is undone, it doesn't matter. (View Highlight)
• And we know through plenty of studies that flow Get more done that way. We know that when we're thinking about time and managing time and thinking about the future, we do not get our jobs done as well. (View Highlight)
• So if you think of that, 80% of society feels time scarcity, you could just also say 80% of society is not present most of their time. (View Highlight)
• I think a lot of people, I think I did for years and years and years, felt very oppressed by time. And I remember listening to this podcast, and it was, um, Radiolab, and they talked about time and how time had changed — how before clocks, time was done — you know, hey come home when the birds chirp. (View Highlight)
  • Note: Time can feel oppressive in the modern day.
• Branson, who said the best time management is exercise. If you're exercising, you feel like it creates more presence. Anything that you do that creates more presence creates less time urgency, or less time poverty or whatever — the worst scarcity. (View Highlight)
• Part of the emotional overwhelm is that we're holding a tremendous amount of things simultaneously because we don't close. (View Highlight)
• And it's the same thing whether you're working out; you need rest to recover the muscle. We have this thing where integration and rest is really An important part of productivity that most people forget about (View Highlight)
• It also reminds me of the saying, which is: if you want something done, ask the busy person. (View Highlight)