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5 Tips to Reclaim Your Time: Why You Must Opt Out of the Cult of Busyness

The bad news: Your relationship with time is more than likely toxic. You’re overscheduled, stretched too thin, and find it difficult to focus on the present moment. You probably respond with, “busy,” when people ask how you’re doing. The worst part? You don’t feel like you have the power to take control of your time. Whether you joined voluntarily or not, you’re a card-carrying member of the cult of busyness—the ever-growing group of people whose anxiety is rising because they don’t feel like they have enough time to get everything done. You’re among the hordes of multitaskers who scramble to squeeze the most out of every minute, rolling through life as a ball of stress, only to collapse into an exhausted heap at the end of every day. How Busyness Took Over and Why it Keeps Getting Worse It’s not your fault. You weren’t born to be a slave to your schedule. You just got swept up in an unhealthy cultural trend. But how did so many people become obsessed with time and productivity? When t...