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:

Give yourself permission to get rid of what hinders you, whether they’re projects, people, or ideas.

163

CrazyBusy:

The more you put something off, the larger it looms.

169

CrazyBusy:

Clutter is one of the major forces… that have to be managed lest they not only diastract but overwhelm you.

169

CrazyBusy:

You have to work at clutter every day, or it will win out.

169

CrazyBusy:

…forgiving someone merely means letting go of anger, not condoning what was done. Chronic anger is a major and toxic distraction.

170

CrazyBusy:

Delegate what you don’t like to do or are not good at if you possibly can.

172

CrazyBusy:

Your goal should be to be not independent, but rather effectively interdependent.

172

CrazyBusy:

The time for anything grows shorter every day as we hurry to get more done.

173

CrazyBusy:

Increasingly, we have grown unable to linger. But it is in lingering that we do our best thinking and connecting.

173

CrazyBusy:

If we want to be as happy as can be, and if we want to preserve our position in the world, we will do so by thinking harder and feeling more deeply, not frantically trying to put in ever more hours.

174