If Busyness Were A Strategy, Hamsters Would Be CEOs

Feeling “productive” but strangely stuck? We dig into the quiet addiction to busyness and show how checklists can masquerade as progress while your most important work sits untouched. If you’ve been chasing the high of completion instead of meaningful outcomes, this conversation is your reset.

We break down why social media skews your sense of pace and success, pushing you into an invisible comparison spiral with people who don’t share your life load or business model. From there, we trace the emotional cost of always feeling behind—how guilt hardens into burnout and resentment—and explain why high achievers struggle to rest without feeling like they’re falling apart. The antidote isn’t more hustle; it’s a strategic shift: honor your season, accept that progress is cumulative, and give your plans the two to six weeks they need to compound.

You’ll learn how to build momentum on purpose by logging weekly wins and adopting an Enough List: three needle‑moving actions that define success for the week. We show how to link that list to a focused 90‑day plan, measure what you can control, and protect the work that actually moves revenue, not just your mood. Expect practical examples you can try today, from tracking lead indicators to stripping away low‑value tasks that crowd your calendar. By the end, you’ll have a calmer roadmap to replace busy work with measurable progress and a simple way to celebrate what’s working.

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Chapters

• 0:00 The Trap Of Busyness
• 0:48 Social Media And Skewed Progress
• 1:34 The Emotional Cost Of Feeling Behind
• 2:02 Reframing Pace And Cumulative Progress
• 2:42 Build Weekly Wins And An Enough List
• 3:45 Goals, Accountability, And Next Steps

Transcript

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You're checking off every box in your checklist or of your tasks that you've created for your 90-day plan, but you're still feeling like you're failing. We're gonna talk about that. The first thing that I need you to understand is that we are often addicted to productivity, even when we're exhausted. We feel like we have to check off boxes, and that being busy is successful. When in reality, it's the opposite. If you were being busy, it is likely that you are being unsuccessful because you're just doing busy work. You're just checking off boxes. It ends up feeling like doing everything right is trapping you where you're at because you're just continuing to check off those boxes. We have a tendency to have an invisible comparison spiral where we're comparing to people who don't have our life responsibilities or business model. And this is largely because of social media. It distorts what progress actually looks like because your path is not the same as everyone else's. Some people that you are following that may be in the same niche as you have very different schedules. They may have less or more time to do what it is that they're able to do. So we need to stop always comparing ourselves to others that we may think are on the same path and recognize that our journey is ours and ours alone. There is a huge emotional cost that actually comes from always feeling behind. You start with feeling guilty, then it turns into burnout, and then it becomes a resentment cycle. This is why high achievers can't rest without feeling like they're falling apart. So if you are someone that you can see this in yourself, there are steps that you need to take and you need to reframe what you're doing. You need to understand that you're not behind. Your pace is exactly right for your life. You also want to think that progress is cumulative, not instantaneous. And for a lot of us, this is difficult because we're so used to getting engagement on social media and it being instantaneous gratification. We have to understand that progress is going to be cumulative. This is why we always say you can't start implementing a strategy and expect it to work after two days. It's something that you normally have to give at least two to six weeks in order to see results from, because progress is cumulative. You also need to realize that you need to be building wins into your week so you feel momentum. This is why we have added it into my mastermind program where my members are adding their wins into the spreadsheet that they are telling me that for what goals they are hitting and what tasks they're hitting for that week. It's to give them this opportunity to celebrate it and to continue feeling that momentum. I need you this week to choose a weekly enough list, three needle-moving things that define success for you. It doesn't have to be that laundry list of things that you're checking off. This is where we're able to prioritize what is most important to moving the needle in our business rather than simply relying on getting all the to-dos done and doing the things that you've always been doing. So I want you to look and figure out in your week what are your three needle-moving things that is your enough list for the week. Now, I want you to understand you're not behind. You're just finally noticing the pressure you've normalized. It isn't a constant getting on the hamster wheel and feeling like you're not completing anything. You need to be setting your 90-day goals, figuring out the tasks that are going to get you there, and then making sure that you are checking those things off of your list as you go along. Now, if you need help and accountability in order to get your 90 day goals done, I want you to fill out a mastermind application so that we can get you into a group and moving quickly. You can find it in the show notes.