Glug glug glug. Done. Next.
Not a Cyres Cafe Moment I can assure you!

*Take a breath*

The buzz word of the red-hot-now is, “busy”. A word I hear more and more in my experience. Hmmm, what’s that telling me?!

The world is full of busy be’zzzz (yes, I notice many of them are tired).

Busy. But effective?

Savoring a simple sigh-full senses-engaging cup of Cyres coffee this morning, with freshness and clarity, I laughed out loud reading words that one of our Regulars had taken the time to send us … quoted this week, one of my favorite TV chefs, Nigella Lawson (so invited to The Cafe), on life today:

“Everyone insists they’re so busy, as if they’re writing War and Peace in their spare time.”

Maybe it’s me, imagining the way Nigella might speak that, but it so tickled me.

Do you relate?

Also it reminded me of this article I read in The New York Times ‘Business’ section, Too Busy to Notice You’re Too Busy.

Look at the picture. Anyone you know?

With our many compelling conversations here about the law of attraction, the power of influence, and Cris’s forthcoming book ‘The Taker’ (partly about being so in control that you let go of control), this quote stood out as relevant to the new avenues of reality, and life style, we’re co-creating here:

Dr. Edward M. Hallowell, a psychiatrist and author of “CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap” (Ballantine Books, 2006)
“You can feel like a tin can surrounded by a circle of a hundred powerful magnets,” he writes. “Many people are excessively busy because they allow themselves to respond to every magnet: tracking too much data, processing too much information, answering to too many people, taking on too many tasks — all in the sense that this is the way they must live in order to keep up and stay in control. But it’s the magnets that have the control.”

Food for thought, I feel (if you have time).

I’m considering the quality of life … a life with style …

Being one who loves a story, ‘The Tortoise and The Hare’ floats (rather than races!) into my mind. I feel we have more time than we think we do. Isn’t time better spent, enjoying the feelings of the journey? I intend to be the tortoise, and, the hare. I feel the hare is the new hero … (I’m hearing Dr Joe Vitale, “the universe loves speed”) … when we do, through inspired action … inspiration, act, fast, to experience, to feel the experience, to not be afraid of failure, because when we embrace ‘failure’ and accept it, we learn from it, and we become successful through it. The passion, pull, and power of prototyping.

How does ‘busy’ feel to you?
Maybe it feels good. If yes, why does it feel good?

Is busy a badge of honor?

As Cris expresses in ‘The Taker’, working hard in the traditional sense is outdated and overrated, with regards to its common perception passed from generation to generation (said by the son of a farmer). It is no longer as much of a path to success as it once was perceived to be, by for example parents who may have ’sold’ their view of hard work to you (mine did … and it made me very busy!). In this fluid world of increasing outsourcing (interesting source for stimulating thought: ‘The 4-Hour Workweek’), creative recruiting, and transformational technology, it could be said that success does require hard work/play (our experience at The Cafe), and, what is more creative is, inspired ’smart’ work … and play.
Old thoughts? Going, going, gone. Fast!

Being busy with passion and purpose and play and productivity feels better than being busy to procrastinate, in my view.

Are you spending too much time micro-managing your life?

Ask yourself, what feels better?

Are you taking on too much? What is slipping through the cracks?

Have you bitten off more than you can chew?

Do you ask for help?
(and expect to get it)

What do you really mean when you tell me that you’re too busy?

Hehee, Cris tells me I am the Curiouser and Curiouser of Cyres Cafe! I ask a lot of questions! Maybe you’ve had time to notice!

Never too busy to be 100% fully engaged and enjoy saying, “I love you. Thank you for being here now.”