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| CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handling Your Fast-Paced Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Edward Dr Hallowell
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 27325
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0345482441
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780345482440
ASIN: 0345482441
Publication Date: March 27, 2007
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Product Description
Look at what's happened to the usual how-are-you exchange. It used to go like this: "How are you?" "Fine." Now it often goes like this: "How are you?" "Busy." Or "Too busy." Or simply "Crazy."
Without intending for it to happen or knowing how, when, or why it got started, many people now find that they live in a rush they never wanted. If you feel busier than you've ever been and wonder how this happened and how you can keep up the pace much longer, you are hardly alone.
Crazy? Maybe not. Dysfunctional? Yes, indeed. We all have more to do than ever before -- and less time to do it. In this highly listenable audiobook, the foremost expert on ADD, Ned Hallowell, explores the society-wide phenomenon of culturally induced ADD.
Being busy may very well keep you from doing what matters most, or it may lead you to do things you deem unwise (like getting angry, for example). Being busy is a problem for almost all of us. This audiobook is about both the opportunity and the problem -- where this peculiar life comes from and how to turn it to your advantage. Offering solutions to this difficult, complex problem that might work for you, most importantly, Crazybusy may prompt you to create solutions of your own.
From the Compact Disc edition.
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 This book will help you become less busy September 1, 2008
Sometimes a book's title will grab me . . . such was the case
with CRAZY BUSY by Edward
M. Hallowell.
That certainly describes how I often feel . . . consequently, I
picked up the to see what the author had to say about
the subject.
The key came very early in my reading . . . as Hallowell
notes on page 5:
* If you're busy doing what matters to you, then being busy is bliss.
You've found a rhythm for your life that works for you. This world is bursting
with possibilities; its energy can be contagious. If you catch the bug, you
want to jump out of bed each day and get busy, not because you are run
ragged by details or because you are keeping the wolf from your door,
but because you are in love with this fast life. At its best, modern life dazzles
us, giving us a chance to get more done in a minute than used to get
done in a month.
But if being busy keeps you from doing what matters most to you, or if
it leads you to do things you deem unwise, like getting angry at a rotary
telephone, then being busy is a problem.
Then there was this example that made me stop and think; laugh, too:
* Life these days is kinda weird. Lingering is a lost art. Such is our hurry
and our need for constant stimulation that a modern romantic conversation
might go like this:
"I love you."
"Oh, good, Now, what's your point?"
Everyone's this busy not (usually) because they want to be or planned
to be, but because they can't find a way not to be and still keep up.
Being extraordinarily busy-and at times frantic-appears to be the
inevitable, uncontrollable consequence of living in today's world. If
being busier than I'd like to be is the price I have to pay, most of us
seem to say, then so be it. After all, modern life is worth it. Life's
never been this exciting.
Fortunately, CRAZY BUSY didn't just point out the problems that
many of our face in our hectic lives . . . it offered many doable
suggestions as to what can be done about them, such as this one:
* Clutter is one of the major forces (along with the rush, gush, and
worry that have to be managed lest they not only distract but overwhelm you.
You have to work at clutter every day or it will win you out. One of the best
strategies is the acronym OHIO-only handle it once (whatever it is). File it,
shelve it, hand it up, use it, respond to it, or throw it away.
I also liked this bit of advice from Hallowell:
* Don't spend more time than you must to get good at what you're bad at
or don't like.
So on that point, let me conclude my review of this excellent book
before I spend any more time on something that I don't like doing;
i.e., writing more than you care to read!
 Expected more August 31, 2008
I was disappointed by this book. He makes the same general points over and over with very little concrete steps to help people struggling with being "crazy busy." In the middle Hallowell shows off cutesy words he's coined to describe this phenomenon.
 A great book for any busy person February 27, 2008
CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handling Your Fast-Paced Life
This book is a great read and a big help for reducing stress.
very practical advice December 22, 2007
I was at first a little distracted by the made-up, meaningless "terms" the author used such as "gemmelsmerch" to describe the various things in life that distract us from what is important. And while it took me a while to really get into the book, I found that it indeed contained some very practical strategies for handling our fast-paced lives. Chapter 32 was the best...50 suggestions to use in developing a system that works for you. Some may seem like common sense, but for those of us with ADD, it never hurts to have constant reminders. Loved the book.
We are becomming ADD November 4, 2007
I think the connection the author makes between our daily activities and ADD behavior is intriguing. Once made you can see it all around you with the frantic task switching we are all engaged in in our daily activity schedule e_mail - cell phones - over worked ETC. He as a Doctor in the mental health field has written a book that is useful and illuminating I think the book and it's thesis is very convincing- and can help alleviate the condition as you become more aware of what is happening to you-
Good read
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