#Microblog Monday 421: Levels of Busy
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I recently found this list of busy levels. According to the author, there are seven levels, though it feels a little top-heavy. Like you go from manageable to elements of drowning early on. You hit capacity in the middle and then spend the following three levels getting progressively frantic.
My work hours spill into life hours, but that happens before I get to crushing commitments. And I’ve never hit unsustainable if the definition is being unable to eat and having a to-do list changing hour by hour.
I seem to skip over cracks in the facade.
Anyway, what do you think? I found it a curious depiction of activity.
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Interesting! I currently live between level 3 (significant commitments) and level 4 (at capacity). I feel like I did all of high school, college, and my first three years of teaching while going to grad school at level 7 (unsustainable), and it has taken me all of the time since then just to recover from that. Being unsustainably busy can have long-term consequences!
That is interesting! I’m retired, and I’m not sure how “significant” my commitments are, but I think I’m probably around a level 3. I do rely on a calendar & reminders to help me keep track of what I need to be doing when. By the end of my working years, I was fluctuating between 5 & 7. I don’t miss it.
No #MM post from me today — apologies. Trying to get everything done before we travel later this week, and I just couldn’t come up with something in time. Maybe next week…!
Hmmmmm. I think you can feel overwhelmed and miss doing things yet still have time to eat, do things for yourself (meet friends, exercise etc) though they might feel like more commitments, etc, or that “capacity” would be unsustainable for some (I’m thinking of one friend l and normal life for others (I’m thinking of another who is perfectly happy at full capacity). So I felt as if the list was theoretical, and that there are moments of “unsustainable busy” even in relatively easy lives.
PS thanks for keeping the list open. I wrote posts earlier but I’m traveling and forgot to list them here till now.