Hi

Have you noticed, of the ways people answer the question, 'how are you?', 'busy' has to be at the top of the list? The question used to get you a, 'fine thanks' but now it gets you a, 'let me catalogue my chaos', or, 'My to-do list is so long I started adding make shorter to-do list to it. Then ticked it for morale.'

I've become curious. Busy seems to mean different things.

Busy, you? can be a ritual display to avoid follow-up questions. Busy can be a way to signal importance. Sometimes busy can mean, scared to start the real thing; I can find time to descale the kettle. I never find time to scale the project. 

Whilst I was supposed to be scaling my own project, I've been busy with this taxonomy of busy types.

1. Reactive Busy – your day is shaped more by other people’s pings than your own choices.
2. Perfectionist Busy – you keep sanding the same corner long after the job’s good enough.
3. Status Busy – your schedule is the plumage you display to the world.
4. Pseudo-work Busy – everything looks productive, except the thing that actually matters.
5. Flow Busy – absorbed, playful, quietly effective (the good kind of busy).
6. Chaotic Busy – double-booked, improvising, discovering overlaps only when the reminder pings.

If you want to meet the whole cast (with their risks and a few Day Crafting interventions to try), the full blog is here, unless ... you're too busy:

Read the Blog post

Day Crafting Foundation – late spaces

There is a Day Crafting Foundation with spaces available that starts in a few weeks. It's a daytime course at these times.

• Session 1: Tuesday 7 October 2.30 – 4.30 pm (9.30am eastern time). 
• Session 2: Tuesday 21 October 2.30 – 4.30 pm. 

The course costs £61 and you'll find more info here. 

I'd love for you to join. Email me for more

Yours,

Bruce

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