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How To Stop Being So Busy And Finally Find Some Free Time

You can clear your schedule without sacrificing anything

Sam Holstein
Published in
7 min readOct 14, 2020

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“The discontent and frustration you feel is entirely your own creation.”

― Stephen Richards

Part 1: Why You Are So Busy

If you’re reading this article, you’re probably a very busy person — and you don’t like it. Your schedule is jam-packed with meetings, work, and other obligations, and you’d like nothing more than to just take a day off.

Which is why you probably won’t like it when I tell you the truth:

You’re busy because you choose to be busy.

You chose it for good reasons, of course. You feel everything you do on a given day is worth doing, or you wouldn’t do it.

But just because you feel they’re worth doing, doesn’t mean they are worth doing. You only think they are because you believe in common misconceptions about productivity.

Most people believe a lot of misconceptions about productivity. They think the most productive people are the ones who are working all the time. In reality, though, the most productive people work less than everyone else, not more. As a result…

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