Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much by Tony Crabbe

Author:Tony Crabbe
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Business &#38, Economics / Time Management
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2015-07-06T14:00:00+00:00

Walking Your Own Path

I don’t think there has ever been a better time to be employed. There are more opportunities for autonomy, innovation and flexibility than ever before. We have never had so many options in our lives, so much capability to achieve great things and so many ways to connect and have rich relationships. There has never been a better time to live, but whether you experience it as a world of overwhelming busyness, or one of amazing opportunity, depends on your approach.

It would be hard to find someone in a modern organization who didn’t accept that they should focus on more important things, that they should find more time to think, or even that they are too busy. Yet somehow, day after day, that intention does not translate into action. Why is that?

I think it’s for two big reasons: avoidance and anxiety. To walk your own path and create your own possibilities takes the self-control and confidence to resist the temptations and pressures to conform and get busy. All the strategies in this section will not work if they stay as good intentions. However much you are clear about your strategic position and your core focus areas, it will all come to naught if you allow persistent busyness to prevent your taking action. However many great ideas you have, you will fail to innovate or change if you are afraid to take the risk.

We can choose to stay victims of the demand avalanche or take a more positive approach to our careers. To walk our own path, to differentiate ourselves, we have to deal, headfirst, with what actually stops us from doing the things that we know will make a difference. We have to stop avoiding the big stuff, and we have to stop being so defensive. After all, as the poet Ted Hughes said, people’s biggest regret is not living boldly enough. This chapter will outline how.

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