You Know You Are Too Busy When…

Have been browsing the book Wisdom 2.0 by Soren Gordhamer which the kind folks at Precious Metal blog sent to me as a contest prize (Thank you! And I’ll be reading it in depth soon and giving a review here) as well as a recent very interesting post at Ted Biringer’s Flatbed Sutra of Louie Wing blog called  100 years of Zen – More confusing than ever…

Both of these brought to mind a number of ideas and concepts such as speed, laziness, attention, effort, understanding-there’s a lot more to this thinking but I don’t have time to explain it all right now. In all it gave me further thought about signs that we are too busy. Here are a few things I’ve noticed or invented or imagined on that subject.

You know you are too busy when:

1.  All your blog posts are links to someone else’s videos from YouTube. This irked me recently and I’ve registered a full complaint on one of my other blogs with this post  Watch My Blog Or Rather Watch Someone Else’s Stuff On My Blog

2. Post-Its are your new format for submitting a resume for a job.

3. You’ve invented your own form of verbal shorthand. It generally sounds like a series of varied tones and grunts.

4. Meditation is combined with isometric butt exercises to save time in the morning.

5. There are at least 20 count down timer widgets on your computer screen (or blog) but you can’t remember what they are all for.

6. Your calendar application crashes your computer every time you try to schedule a new appointment.

7. You have a nap buddy on the bus or train during your commute to wake you up before your stop.

8.  Speed chanting has given you painful nodes on your vocal cords.

9. Twitter twitch (Blackberry variation) is your latest repetitive strain injury.

10.  Buddha has been abbreviated to Bud in all your correspondence.

11. You don’t have time for a sense of humor.