You’re Wasting Your Life Pretending to Be Busy

Aaron Machbitz· Host0:00

Stop confusing motion with progress. Are you just being busy to be busy? Are you masquerading, like doing the hard thing that you know you should do from just, uh, by just like doing random tasks to, you know, think you're in motion or think you're doing the right thing? Um, I did an episode about goals and targets, and the most important question you wanna be able to ask yourself is, what do I really want? Because you certainly can be working very, very hard, but you could be climbing the wrong mountain or crim- climbing the wrong ladder. That's just motion. You're just spinning your wheels, doing the same thing over and over and over again, telling yourself that you're working hard, but you're not doing things deliberately or with intention, right? You're masquerading sort of your busyness, or you're masquerading your exhaustion as, as just to sort of lie and tell yourself that you're being productive. But maybe you're not even being productive on the right thing, and so you're climbing all these ladders that you don't actually want. And so you have all this motion, and from the outside looking in, it looks like you're dominating or working hard or doing great things, but really you're just sort of walking or running or even sprinting on this treadmill, and you're not getting anywhere. You just have motion, you don't have progress. And so again, gotta go back to the fundamentals, the basics. The really clear idea is like, what do you really, really want? That's your North Star. That's your target. That's what you're aiming at. Then you distill it down to, what