Reading through many of last year’s Christmas cards and letters I noticed a common repeated phrase in one form or another:
Life is busy here …
It’s been crazy busy here …
We’re so busy …
I could relate with them! I bet you could too!
Busyness has so invaded our culture that we have come up with a new vocabulary for it. Words like: on overload, crazy busy,fried and tapped out pervade our speech. Some old school phrases: running around like a chicken with their head cut off and going 90 to nothing prove that busyness isn’t a new thing.
Although it is not a new phenomenon busyness has increased exponentially over recent years! When I inquired about the potential for a new project, a fellow worker responded that no one in their department had the bandwidth to take it on.