I have a request that will help you and your fellow business owners….

Stop asking people if they are ‘busy’ to see how they are.

We ask people this as if them responding with a “yes” is a good thing?

I don’t know anyone who truly wants to feel busy. “Busy” normally goes along with feeling over-worked, tired and stressed out, it usually means not being relaxed and surviving on adrenaline. I don’t know anyone that really enjoys those feelings on an ongoing basis (and I certainly don’t like it either).

I do like to feel challenged though. I do like to feel that I’m in demand. I do like to feel that I have a good flow of business to keep me profitable. I like to feel that I’ve got things under control and be relaxed about it (even when I’m working hard).

To me, “Busy” is a dirty four letter word. We are trained from an early age that busy is a great definition of success…… Because if we’re busy then we must be successful, right?  It’s not true though. Busy is NOT a sign of success. Busy might mean that we have a lot of clients or work on, but it’s very easy to be busy yet not be profitable. And it’s easy to be busy and profitable and still not be happy!

In my observation from coaching hundreds of business owners most are too busy. Their business runs them. So a better question might be “How’s business?” or “How’s everything working out?” Let’s break the curse of ‘busy’ being a good thing in business.