How can you tell whether you need a long to-do list, to be constantly accomplishing (even on vacation) to feel good about yourself or if you are merely a busy person who is responsible and reliable?
Take the following quiz and record your answers with a simple yes or no. The purpose of this self-assessment test is to pause and take notice.
1. Do you tune out during conversations?
2. Do you feel rushed wherever you are because you feel you ought to be completing the next task somewhere else?
3. Are you irritable with others?
4. Do you rate yourself according to the opinions of others?
5. Are you unable to ask for help?
6. Is being on the receiving end a sign of weakness to you?
7. When you exercise do you do it for longer than ninety minutes 7 days a week?
8. Are you always talking on your cell phone even when taking a walk?
9. Do you constantly check your appearance in the mirror?
10. Do you feel uncomfortable when you don’t have something to do right now?
If you answered yes to 3 questions, you are out of balance; 5 questions you are losing a sense of self; 10 questions you have hit the crash-and-burn zone.
Your addictive busyness is a survival mechanism to deal with what is perceived as an unhappy reality. Perhaps, you are suppressing feelings of inadequacy, unworthiness and unattractiveness which are seeping out through the seams of your body and soul.
Liberating yourself from being "crazy busy" means identifying your true self and the inner message that could propel you forward to a happier life. An original like you does not need to settle for living a contracted life.
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