99% of Busy People Forget These Simple Things

It ends up causing them to plateau in life.

Tim Denning
ILLUMINATION
Published in
8 min readNov 1, 2024

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Being busy is an illness.

Show me a busy person who can’t fit a 30-minute chat in their diary and I’ll show you a person who is heading straight for burnout and will leave a path of devastation behind them.

In case you think I was an immaculate productivity conception, I wasn’t. I know what these busy people get wrong because I was one of them. I wore sleep deprivation, tiredness, long hours, and black, deathly bags under my eyes as a badge of honor.

The underneath of my eyes is still black and will never change, as a reminder of my overworked, busy years that ended every good romantic relationship I ever had.

Busyness stops you from thinking about your life. In the process, you can forget these simple things that eventually cause a plateau.

What are you doing with your life?

Is this the dream?

Busy-ness puts us on an escalator to nowhere. You easily forget what the end goal is and what brings you joy.

If you don’t ask yourself this question often you can effortlessly drift on into no man’s land and forget about the big picture. Each day of life is a small step towards…

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Tim Denning
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