The One Phrase You Need to Stop Saying Right Now

Most of us feel like this guy, everyday, all the time.

Please don’t take this the wrong way, but…

I don’t care how busy you are.

I’m busy, you’re busy, we’re all busybusybusy.

So why do we always feel it’s necessary to broadcast our busy-ness to the world?

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Let me back up. Over the past few years, I’ve noticed that many of us (including me!) have a conditioned response to the question “How are you?” or “How’s your day going?” It’s often “I’m so busy!” or a variation of that sentiment: “I’m swamped,” “I’m overwhelmed,” “I have too much to do,” and even, “I’m tired”… because I’m so busy.

Recently I had an email exchange with the assistant of an admittedly very busy entrepreneur. Even though she responded “yes” to my request (which was asking for this person’s time), every single email reiterated how busy/swamped/maxed out this person was.

After the fourth time, I actually started talking back to my email inbox: “I know, I get it, you’re important and busy!”

And at that moment, I promised myself I would try to never respond to anything with “I’m so busy.”

It was validating to read about this very point when I picked up a copy of Rory Vaden’s new book, “