Comments on: The B Word: Why I Hate “Busy” (And 3 Ways To Say It Less) https://lauravanderkam.com/2011/10/the-b-word-why-i-hate-busy-and-3-ways-to-say-it-less/ Writer, Author, Speaker Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:45:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Losing the “B” word | The Minimalist March https://lauravanderkam.com/2011/10/the-b-word-why-i-hate-busy-and-3-ways-to-say-it-less/#comment-20253 Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:45:16 +0000 http://www.my168hours.com/main/?p=1600#comment-20253 […] The B Word: Why I Hate “Busy” (And 3 Ways To Say It Less) – Laura Vanderkam […]

]]> By: Camille Noe Pagan https://lauravanderkam.com/2011/10/the-b-word-why-i-hate-busy-and-3-ways-to-say-it-less/#comment-20252 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:40:18 +0000 http://www.my168hours.com/main/?p=1600#comment-20252 Thanks for the comments, Sarah and Diana—and Laura, for having me on your blog again!

]]> By: Laura https://lauravanderkam.com/2011/10/the-b-word-why-i-hate-busy-and-3-ways-to-say-it-less/#comment-20251 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:34:13 +0000 http://www.my168hours.com/main/?p=1600#comment-20251 In reply to diana watters.

@Diana – if something is important to us, we make time. Exactly.

]]> By: diana watters https://lauravanderkam.com/2011/10/the-b-word-why-i-hate-busy-and-3-ways-to-say-it-less/#comment-20250 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:49:09 +0000 http://www.my168hours.com/main/?p=1600#comment-20250 Great post. I stopeed saying “I’m too busy”, or “I don’t have time”, when my son was going through some medical issues and I suddenly had an obligation 3 nights each week. If someone had told me I had to make that sort of a time commitment I would have definitely played the “b card”, but this was important, and what do you know? I wasn’t too busy after all.

I especially like the comment about using “busy” to mean “important/popular/successful”. I know too many people who use it that way.

]]> By: Sarah https://lauravanderkam.com/2011/10/the-b-word-why-i-hate-busy-and-3-ways-to-say-it-less/#comment-20249 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:26:04 +0000 http://www.my168hours.com/main/?p=1600#comment-20249 I so agree! Especially with point #1. I don’t want to know when you’re NOT free. To me, it means you are saying, here are a dozen other things more important than you. Just tell me when you’re free – and if you don’t want to do something, say it!

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