Everyone complains they are too busy. The only time I can recall people complaining that they were not busy was in Biglaw in 2008, when there was little work to go around and everyone was afraid (with ample justification) they were about to get laid off.
It’s hard to know if someone — even you yourself — is truly too busy. After all, people with 9-to-5s can feel like they are too busy. One of my entrepreneur clients says he doesn’t like to work more than five hours a day, and when he bumps up against five hours, he will immediately stop working. So when would he be too busy? When one day he has to work five hours and ten minutes?
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