STOP THE GLORIFICATION OF "BUSY"!

I started four blog posts last month- all left behind mid-sentence like half eaten meals that have gone cold and are now unappetizing. I will spare you those. What keeps coming to my attention is how the terrible cost of the glorification of ‘busy’ distracts us from health, happiness  and love. I hear it every day…people too busy doing nothing that matters who have no time for what does.

 

The way that we are taught to glorify being busy- which is the enemy of clarity, satisfaction and ease- is a disease.  I watched one friend who was literally dying, insist on spending her last days trying to finish a work project and pay bills rather than bask in the love of her children and friends. She refused to admit that her life was ending despite all evidence to the contrary. Such is the power of the busy mind.  I broke my heart watching that happen, and turned my awareness on the ways that I too have used being ‘busy’ as a distraction from my own happiness, my dreams and my desires. I am awake and I am taking action.

 

Fall is here. I love fall. As the weather cools I am feeling a powerful urge to purge. I’m going through every thing …and I mean every.little.thing. from the closets to the storage space, from suitcases to dresser drawers, from trinkets to jewelry boxes to old habits, ideas and shabby stories and ideas that no longer serve me.  Clutter is OUT  and Clarity is in. Everything that’s half-assed must go. The time is now & I’m ready! I am in the process of making my outer world match my inner world. I invite you to do the same.

 

Happiness is my priority.  I’m even, exploring new career options (yep, I’m thinking of a B & B, or a little organic restaurant or whatever else may call to me)   I am filled with creative drive and fired up about writing books, creating new music, and doing new workshops in new locations. (You’ll get a list very soon when the September newsletter comes out… FREE Teleclass, an on line training,  a new program in MD, and two in Florida…Wheeeee!)

 

 But am I too busy? No. I am flowing rather than scheduling, listening to my dreams, meditating, walking, working out and doing all the stuff I swore I was ‘too busy’ to do before the bricks to the head woke me.  I notice that the more I ‘flow’ with things, the more time shifts bends and folds to accommodate whatever is going on.  There's plenty of time.

 

After this past year of slowly gaining my health and losing friends and brilliant souls like Robin Williams, I am itching to strip off my old self and old stories like a snake shedding its skin, and create a new world that’s in deeper alignment with who I am, what I want to experience and where I want to go in life.  I hope you do too. Please come and  cross this bridge with me.

 

The self that lives in the Surface world that focuses on 'Busy' is only part of who  we are. We are also wild beings flickering in an infinite sea of Being free from the usual constructs of time. Busy doesn’t exist.  It’s a story of distraction used by the mind to keep us repeating the old familiar (often irritating) minutia, because the truth is, we’re afraid to let ourselves be the powerful playful shining beings that we are. We are dreamers first and foremost, we are story tellers and mystics and visionaries.  When our imagination ignites our emotions that power reaches out calling experiences to life.

 

When we stop filling up our time with mindless business- when we stop buying the story that we’re ‘too busy’  to be/do/have what our soul longs for-we transform.  Our lives transform. And the whole world becomes a little brighter.   I know you have heard these words before countless times…but I urge you shake off the consensual trance you live in, and rise…end the glorification of ‘busy’ and instead, fly boldly into your dreams.