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Breaking the Busyness Trap: How to Take Back Your Time
Feel like you're constantly spinning your wheels but getting nowhere? You're not alone.
In this episode, I break down the real reason we stay stuck in the busyness trap—and how to break free.
We’ll talk about the science behind it, why decision fatigue drains your energy, and how to shift from reacting to actually making progress.
No fluff. No BS. Just real strategies that work.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
✅ The Mere Urgency Effect makes us prioritize urgent tasks over important ones.
✅ Decision fatigue drains our mental energy, leading to poor choices.
✅ Task-switching can take up to 23 minutes to regain focus.
✅ Busyness is often a sign of poor priorities, not productivity.
✅ Three ways to reclaim your time:
Links and Resources:
Follow Terri-Ann Richards: https://terriannrichards.com/
The Happy Stack Newsletter: https://happystack.substack.com/
Subscribe to the Happy Stack Newsletter for more real talk and strategies every week.
Let’s stop glorifying busyness and start making real progress.
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Feel like you're constantly spinning your wheels but getting nowhere? You're not alone.
In this episode, I break down the real reason we stay stuck in the busyness trap—and how to break free.
We’ll talk about the science behind it, why decision fatigue drains your energy, and how to shift from reacting to actually making progress.
No fluff. No BS. Just real strategies that work.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
✅ The Mere Urgency Effect makes us prioritize urgent tasks over important ones.
✅ Decision fatigue drains our mental energy, leading to poor choices.
✅ Task-switching can take up to 23 minutes to regain focus.
✅ Busyness is often a sign of poor priorities, not productivity.
✅ Three ways to reclaim your time:
Links and Resources:
Follow Terri-Ann Richards: https://terriannrichards.com/
The Happy Stack Newsletter: https://happystack.substack.com/
Subscribe to the Happy Stack Newsletter for more real talk and strategies every week.
Let’s stop glorifying busyness and start making real progress.