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If you’re invested in your career, it’s inevitable that you will be extremely busy.
Days and weeks speed by as you zoom through your to-do list, ticking off items as quickly as possible whilst balancing your skills in creating quality work. Often, the working week is somewhat like spinning plates; the job is never finished, and whilst you lend your attention to one task, another is created for you and your inbox slowly fills with demanding requests.
Days end either with a feeling of accomplishment as you look as your diminishing to-do list, or as a major project successfully draws to a close, or they end with the deflating knowledge that you haven’t even made a dent in your workload. Does this sound familiar?
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Whilst the mad dash to the finish line each day is exhausting, mentally taxing and a strain on other areas of your life, it also tends to be exhilarating and rewarding – when it’s going right. And most workers agree that being busy has a positive impact on the mental length of the workday, whilst having nothing to do has a slowing effect. Yet there’s more to the cult of productivity than speeding up time.
