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The art of being
An antidote for our busy lives
Are we obsessed with doing?
Are we obsessed with becoming?
Can we be content with, simply, being?
These are questions I find myself asking more often. Especially those times where I’m falling into the productivity trap.
We all have those times when there is just too much to do with too little time. It is at these times that I find I become obsessed with doing. My conversations are focused on getting stuff done. My language is infiltrated by productivity speak — all about priority setting, time-blocking, pomodoro-ing, bullet journalling, batching tasks, focussing … I get trapped by the lure of a magic bullet to allow me to do it all, hence have it all.
At these times my longer term goals weigh heavily on me. Those things I’m striving to do or aiming to become feel unattainable unless I’m doing more and more today. I feel the future I’m dreaming of, and the opportunity to move that bit closer to it, slipping away by not doing enough today to make that vision for tomorrow a reality.
