Minibook · Becoming Leader, Vol. IV
The Busyness Lie
Stop. Then What?
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On busyness as a painkiller.
About this book
- The thesis
- You stay busy because the alternative is meeting the question that's underneath: who are you when you stop performing? Burnout is what arrives when the identity you've been outrunning finally catches up.
- The belief running you
- “I need to be busy to be worthy. If I stop, I'm nothing.”
- The reframe
- Busyness numbs the question you're avoiding. The work now is to face it: stop, and discover what's still there when you do. The Achiever learns to be still without disappearing.
Your calendar is a wall of color. Your inbox breeds overnight. You fall asleep reviewing tomorrow's meetings and wake up already behind. Someone who loves you has said, carefully, that you seem different lately.
Everyone gives the same advice: delegate more, set boundaries, protect your weekends, learn to say no. You've tried. You've downloaded the apps, blocked time for deep work, and scheduled over it within forty-eight hours. You know exactly what you're supposed to do. You just can't do it.
This book sits with the question the calendar is built to avoid: who are you when you stop performing? It traces the running back to where you learned it, names the part of you that can't sit still, and shows what putting down the load actually requires — meeting the part you've been outrunning.
A book for leaders who can't stop — and are starting to wonder what they're running from.
About the Author
Francisco Baptista
Books from the coaching room. About the strategies that built senior leaders.
Currently: The Good Girl Costume— second of nineteen books on the strategies that built senior leaders, and now run them...
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