When we have too much to do, it leaves little room for us to think about other people.
There will always be things in life that try to demand our immediate attention – deadlines, missed calls or a full inbox. But busyness is the death of kindness; we have little time for anything or anyone else. Prioritise your personal well-being and try to focus your energy on what’s important, rather than what seems urgent. It will free up your time and your mind to spend on the things that matter to you, with the people you love. The average family spends just over half an hour a day together ‘undistracted’ – time where they feel they actually bond together and catch up without anything else getting in the way, according to research commissioned by Highland Spring.
Author and founder of Becoming Minimalist, Joshua Becker, suggests we find freedom in saying ‘no’ to less important commitments in order to open up our lives to pursue the most important. Sometimes having less, doing less and expecting less can help us gain more of the things we actually need.
