Kinkyou Chuudoku – The poison of being too busy

In  Japanese  the  term  Kinkyou  Chuudoku translates as the poison of
being  too  busy.  Stephen  Covey  talks  about the same thing when he
discusses sharpening the saw. His antidote talks about walking up upon
a man sawing a tree and when he was asked why he doesn't take time out
to sharpen his saw, the man replies that he is running late and has no
time to stop. You see, if he had taken the time to sharpen the saw, he
would have been able to finish the job much quicker.

We  don't  ever  have time to do everything, but we do have time to do
the most important things. I hear people say sometimes that they don't
have  time  to  spend  working  on  goals  and doing weekly scheduling
because they are too busy. In reality, if they took time to plan their
week,  they  would find themselves in charge of their time and feeling
more in control, instead of feeling that they were out of control.

Next  month we will have several people make black belt and even more,
move  up a level in the black belt rankings. This happens because they
took the time to schedule and work around a couple of nights a week so
they  could  train  and  accomplish a goal that they knew would change
their lives through positive life skills attained during that process.
It is very important that you identify what is important in your life,
and  make  sure that you spend time on a weekly basis making that goal
become a reality.

It  has  been  proven that taking time off and relaxing actually helps
productivity.  We  train  hard  and  must  also  take time to rest for
optimum  performance  in  anything we do. The top successful people in
the  world  know that spending time just relaxing and reflecting, many
times  causes  breakthroughs  in  their  thinking and problem solving,
allowing  them  to  progress  much quicker than if they had worked the
whole time. Many of the top people swear by spending 30 minutes a day,
alone in thought, as one of those secrets of success.

Remember  there  is  a  big  difference between being busy and getting
things  done.  On  a  daily  basis,  make sure that you are working on
high-valued activities, and you will be amazed at the results.

Respectfully,
Terry L. Bryan, Hanshi