Can we can take and make time? Yes!

"I was too busy."

"I am so busy."

"I will be busier than ever."

Suddenly phrases likes these strike me, more than ever, as at best inaccurate, and at worst self-important. The "busy" excuse rolls off tongues...just listen for it. Count the times in a day you hear or say it. But I have never, ever, heard someone with great responsibilities, much to do, complain about being too busy-they are getting it done, each thing receiving the amount of attention it deserves.

While devoting a good bit of my time through workshops, correspondence, and over dinners to January's topic, "The Joy of Single Tasking," in The Philosopher's Table, the repeated justification offered for an inability to concentrate on one thing at a time: helpless enslavement to a life too busy.  Read more.