The busy trap: time vs. moneyStaff writer Man in his best years (you know, for men the best years last and last and last). Writer, beer drinker, interested in anything cool and nothing whatsoever. According to the survey, the richer the person was, the more likely s/he was to complain about the lack of time. In theory, if you are rich, you can afford to take time off and hire people to do the work for you. But then again, it's not the way people usually get rich. Often they get rich by doing what they do the way THEY do it. And while they might trust other people to do their work for them, the results are never the same, thus it's better to do it themselves. And there are always activities that you can't let other people do for you. I've seen the same thing among lots of my friends, including myself. I know a woman who's really good at her job, earns very nicely, but whenever I see her, she's on the phone organizing something, going to a meeting the next moment and going to a firefighters learning camp the next. The better you are at what you do and the more things you do overall, the more people you know who will want to work with you. And that's how great opportunities arise and it's often not sane not to say yes to them. And that makes the busy people even busier. Now they have all the money they need to wander and travel around, but they simply don't have the time to do it. And then there are poor people Or, I digress. Not necessarily poor people, but people with less means to do something. And more time in their hands. They do their simple job, don't participate in many other activities, get paid the minimum they need. They complain about the money, but they have a lot of free time they could use to do something. Go out with friends, go traveling or whatever else. But they simply don't have the resources. And as they don't participate in all the things as much as the busy people, they also get offered less attractive new opportunities, to evolve towards the richer crowd. Of course, there is also second side to that coin. Busy people, because they are busy, they make plans. And sometimes they are simply busy because they HAVE to go meet a friend, they HAVE to go to see that musical later today, they HAVE to finish the book they started, the HAVE to use those food ingredients today to make something really delicious. Very often they kind of push themselves to be more busy than they have to, often unknowingly. Other people just see the option that they CAN do it, if they want to. Busy people feel they HAVE to do it. So it's not just time vs. money, but also person vs. person. Might that be also the difference between the successful and not so successful people? Or did those successful people turn out to be the busy bees only AFTER they became successful. I don't have a study to quote here to prove it, but it's definitely some food for thought. Post Your Comment |
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