Too busy – rant

By Vendoran on April 18th, 2008

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I cannot stress how much of a pet peeve this is of mine.  The number of times I’m told in a single week, "I’m sorry but I was just too busy…", "I’m too busy", "I’m very busy", "I’m really busy" etc, etc is just ludicrous.  And of course this reason (excuse) always comes right after or right before, that person saying they can’t or didn’t do something.

Now, I’m not saying people aren’t busy, in fact I’m saying the opposite.  I’m busy too, here’s my schedule/responsibilities:

  • Husband to my wonderful wife
  • Father to my 4 wonderful kids (ages 2, 4, 10, 15) and one wonderful dog (age 4)
  • My wife and I home-school our kids (SharedView and IM works wonders)
  • I have a full time job as a DBPro consultant in Chicagoland at Magenic
  • Recently was appointed to the Magenic Technology Council
  • Co-ordinate Magenic’s Internal DBPro meetings
  • Attend church 3 times a week (Sun morn, Sun night and Wed night)
  • Help with upkeep/repairs at church (Sat morn and throughout week if necessary)
  • Ensure my eldest daughter can get to and from youth group and church (Fri night)
  • Attend school (Mon night)
  • Play basketball (Thurs night)
  • SQLPASS Member, involved in the DBA SIG

So I’m pretty active, I’m not the busiest person in the world, but I’m not a slacker either.  Yet I still find the time to do things that I feel are worthy of my time (like UserGroup meetings, special events, etc).  Sure I get backed up sometimes, and sometimes I make decisions that say I can’t do something because something else is more important right now.

But what the "I’m too busy" is really saying is it’s not a priority right now.  And I don’t have a problem with that.  But stop saying that such and such is a priority and you want to do it, you’re just too busy (especially if this has been the mantra for over a month).  Because that simply doesn’t work, you can’t have it both ways.  If something is important, get it done, if not, stop saying it is.

We all make time for those things that are important to us.

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2 Responses to “Too busy – rant”

  1. Tom Cole says:
    2008/04/21 at 7:13 PM

    Good point. My pet-peeve is when people are always being too busy to make a meeting, or they always bail out the day-of. :)

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  2. Anthony says:
    2008/04/25 at 10:56 AM

    Good post Aaron. "I’m too busy" as an excuse is played-out. We’re ALL that busy these days.

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