Busy Is The New Stupid
<p>Any idiot can be busy today.</p>
<p>It actually takes more sophisticated and smart thinking to do less, than to be busy. Having spent many years as an entrepreneur building businesses that generate several hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit a year, I’ve found that <strong>being busy is the enemy of progress.</strong></p>
<p>Instead, I strive to be less busy but exponentially more <strong>productive</strong>.</p>
<h2>The Busyness Badge Of Honor</h2>
<p>Many people take pride in how busy they are. They wear their busy status like a badge of honor. This is stupid.</p>
<p>It’s very easy to fill your day up with pointless meetings, admin work, errands, tasks, to dos, etc. But the real question is, does any of this bring you closer to your goal? If the answer is no— stop doing it. To be successful, we must simplify our days, ruthlessly eliminating or outsourcing anything that doesn’t generate a significant return on our time investment.</p>
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<p>“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication” — Leonardo DaVinci:</p>
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<p>Doing less is not being lazy — it is a sophisticated art.</p>
<p>If you’re in business, whether that be for yourself or an employer — you’re doing yourself a disservice by being busy.</p>
<p>Having worked with hundreds of business owners helping them to grow and scale their companies, I usually find that there are perhaps 2–3 key things that they should be focusing on each day to really move the needle towards their goals. Everything else is either pointless and thus eliminated or it should be done by somebody else.</p>
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