I’ve talked about recently about people feeling that they’re “too busy” to eat better and / or exercise.
And, as I always say, I get it.
I get that we’re busy.
It’s very rare that I talk to someone who doesn’t consider themselves busy.
But, again, I know a massive part of what I do, and the value I bring to people, is helping them ask better questions.
Not just the same questions that will lead them to the same answers and the same results as before.
A great question that you could ask, and that I ask of people sometimes, is the title to this blog.
“Too busy for what?”
When we say that we’re “too busy”…….
What are we “too busy” for?
And the usual response I get to that is vague at best.
“This”
“All of it”
“I’ve just got too much on”
Not really answering the question, is it?
What, specifically, are we “too busy” for?
Put some numbers on it.
Amounts of minutes and hours it requires.
“I’m too busy to fit in four 1 hour workouts down at the gym every single week”
“I’m too busy to spend 30 minutes cooking each evening meal from scratch”
Not I’m “too busy to exercise” or “too busy to eat healthy”.
Specifics.
Numbers.
Because the great thing with getting specific on what we consider ourselves to be “too busy” for is……..
We can identify what we’re not “too busy” for.
If we are too busy to do several 1 hour workouts, could we do two 45 minute ones?
Or three ten minute ones (don’t kid yourself that this isn’t worth doing when all the research says otherwise).
If we all “too busy” to spend an extra 30 minutes on every meal, are we “too busy” to make food choices that take no more time than our current ones, but that contribute less calories?
We wouldn’t be allowed to give vague, evasive answers at work.
So why do it in our personal life?
What are we “too busy” for?
And what are we not “too busy” for?
Much love,
Jon ‘working the whole day though’ Hall
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