This is Kelly Orchard’s Apple a Day. Sixty seconds on wisdom, success, and personal growth. We’re focusing on 30 days of growth with gratitude and Thanksgiving. Be thankful for downtime. Be thankful for opportunities to spend relaxing and loving and playing. We live in a cult of busy-ness. Somehow, the idea that being too busy means we are achieving success and our dreams! When I talk
to people who say, “Oh, well- I’m too busy for…(fill in the blank), I wonder what they are actually avoiding? I remember a college professor and friend of mine was always busy. She was busy teaching multiple classes at multiple colleges. She was busy with her grown children and grandchildren. She appeared to have achieved so much success. But there was something missing. I remember asking her, “Why do you keep yourself so busy? Is to avoid the reality that you are lonely?” Tears began to well up in her eyes. “Yes,” she replied. “I don’t have a relationship that is
significant to me.” Whatever it is that we want, yet do not have – is what we strive for. When we create such a busy life, we neglect the wants we really have.
Don’t let yourself get so busy that you don’t make time for love, for family, for relaxation, for FUN! When we all get to the end of our lives…. We won’t be saying, I wish I would have spent more time working, or slaving away at my computer, or …. You get the idea.
This has been Kelly Orchard’s Apple a Day… Now go out and be fruitful.
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