Comments on: How to stop being so busy (plus a challenge)

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:33:50 +0000

What if your friend is too busy to watch this video about being too busy.

By: Andrew Seipp

Andrew Seipp — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:12:25 +0000

As an entrepreneur this is the one thing that I struggle with. I am so conditioned to work, work, work that I almost feel guilty when I stop. This is despite the fact that I don’t actually get that much more done in the longer hours.

Great post!

By: Matt Wolfe

Matt Wolfe — Fri, 16 May 2014 22:21:41 +0000

This is a super timely video. I find myself overwhelmed with how “busy” I really am. I started using Rescue Time to keep an eye on how I spend my day. I find that I really do maybe 4 hours per day of real work and then spend another 5 hours or so on Facebook, Twitter, or dug in to email.

Using a tool like Rescue Time I’ve been able to make myself aware of this and create goals for how much productive work I actually do.

I still find it difficult to explain to friends what I’ve been up to when they have no idea what things like WordPress, autoresponders, CRMs, squeeze pages, or upsell funnels are. But I guess that’s just something that can lead to even more in-depth conversations…

By: Ivan Widjaya

Ivan Widjaya — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 01:20:10 +0000

One of the things I do is define the most important thing that I have to do and let the rest go to hell. Then I also determine the turnout of what I am about to do and if it is vital to the success of the business.

By: Silvia

Silvia — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:49:41 +0000

me too

By: Melinda

Melinda — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 02:25:21 +0000

I’m never busy. If I don’t get something done it’s because I dont’ really want to do it or I’ve been a slackarse, never busy.

I’m also honest.

By: Kristy

Kristy — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 04:22:27 +0000

I am a mum of 2 small children, the second being a recent edition. My time for working on my business just got smaller. I have spent a lot of time recently researching how to improve our business and marketing and have watched video after video, delved into the features and benefits of all type of software. The umming and ahhhing of what to do next now seems to be consuming my very tiny amount of “work hours” that I have available. Time to make some decisions, set a business plan and budget and MOVE FORWARD 🙂 Use my tini-tiny amount of hours to build my business rather than research it 🙂 Thanks for the rant space and push Derek. Cheers, Kristy

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:49:44 +0000

I’m late to the party here, but had to add my comments because I’m SO guilty of the “I’ve been busy” trap. As a matter of fact, it’s my standard response to whenever someone asks me how I’ve been…”Good, busy.” With so many balls in the air – two businesses, two kids, volunteer work at school and at church, a household to run, two dogs, and extended family obligations, I haven’t figured out how to compartmentalize, and therefore, end up always being busy but not accomplishing goals. Keeping my head above water is about where it’s at!

By: Valerie

Valerie — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 02:29:20 +0000

I’m learning that often fake busy is a result of fear that something will be painful or take to much time. Activation energy can also be a cluprit, to many hurdles to get to the real desired task. I’m working on noticing when these thing are in play and using sneaky tricks to get around these hurdles. Learning to implement the things/programs I’ve learned/bought and work on things that are close to the money. At the same time being nice to myself when I get off track and then getting back on the truly productive path.

By: Rais Zada

Rais Zada — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 17:41:05 +0000

I’ve been busy doing some online work, replying emails and comments on my blogs, teaching training lectures to my students and many more. Oh yeh and busy in taking lot of calls a day. I don’t know how to mange my time.