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There's nothing wrong with keeping busy; plenty of people thrive on a sense of purpose and accomplishment. But if you're too busy (and only you know if you are), then you're vulnerable to anger, stress, a short temper -- and shortchanging assignments.
A new book from psychiatrist Edward M. Hallowell, CrazyBusy, examines our jam-packed lives and how technology helps and hinders them. Indeed, Hallowell says, being busy has become a status symbol, a real reversal of the leisure-class philosophy.
So what's a busy executive to do? The book provides practical advice and strategies to combat the time-sucking temptations of modern life, and it urges readers to be more discriminating when it comes to consumer technology products. Hallowell says we should be striving for the "C state" -- that's clear, calm, cool, curious, creative and coordinated.
We liked filling out Hallowell's crazybusy assessment tool. It can help you to determine where you fritter away your valuable time and what to do about it. ($22.95, 256 pages)
Megan Santosus, a former senior editor at CIO Decisions, is now a features editor for SearchDataCenter.com. Write to her at msantosus@techtarget.com.
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