Five Reasons Why Some of Us Stay Chronically Busy

1. We believe that our identity depends on our productivity. Others will frown on us if we relax and take a break.
2. We believe that we are indispensable. In other words, life as we know it would not go on if we weren’t there in the middle of so many things.
3. We believe that we are invincible. We can take anything that is dished out to us. We believe we can defy the natural laws that govern the universe. Who needs 8 hours of sleep when you can make it on 4 and a gallon of coffee?
4. We lack focus and direction. We don’t know where we are headed and therefore just keep moving. Have you ever seen a fly trying to escape through a closed window? It just keeps banging its face into the glass until its exhausted. Then it takes a break and starts over.
5. We work until we drop so we don’t have to face ourselves (i.e. our spiritual condition, our emotions, our relational dilemmas, our loneliness). "The quiet scares me because it screams the truth." --Pink from the song, "Sober".