The Myth of Keeping Up
- Carroll Macey
- Oct 7
- 1 min read

Your head is buzzing. Your focus is scattered. You feel like you’re running just to stay still.
Most of us live in a world where there’s always more to do than we can realistically manage.And yet we still whisper to ourselves:
“If I were more organised, maybe I could get it all done.”
But that’s the trap.
As Tony Crabbe reminds us in Busy:
“Your job is not to control the demands made on you; it is to feel in control of your response to it.”
The shift begins not by doing more — but by doing differently.
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