Book Titles

CrazyBusy
Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD

By Edward Hallowell

Year Published: 2006
ISBN-13: 978-0345482433
Categories: Busyness, Overwhelming, Psychology

137 Quotes Found

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CrazyBusy:

Most of us feel slightly bewildered, realizing we have more to do than ever – with less time to do it.

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CrazyBusy:

Paradoxically enough, it is in part the desire for control that has led people to lose it.

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CrazyBusy:

When we stop responding to everyone and everything, we regain the control we can effectively exert. We give up pursuing total control and better use what we have.

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CrazyBusy:

At the deepest level – the level we rarely visit – we stay busy to avoid looking into the abyss.

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CrazyBusy:

All the activity in the whole world can generate can’t bring back one person who has died. This is perhaps the hardest truth any of us ever learns.

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CrazyBusy:

Acceptance – not busyness – brings us to a peaceful place.

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CrazyBusy:

What makes worry peculiar these days is how common it is, even among children, and how toxic it can be, leading many people to hold back on life out of fear.

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CrazyBusy:

Decide what matters and do it. Regulate the rush, the gush, and the rest, or they will regulate you.

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CrazyBusy:

The wise will be humble enough to listen to others, creative enough to devise new solutions to our new problems, and bold enough in the face of uncertainty to give them a try.

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CrazyBusy:

…it is a myth that you can perform two tasks simultaneously as well as you can perform one.

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