Accelerate! With Andy Paul

Garland Vance is the Founder of AdVance Leadership and author of Gettin' (un)Busy: 5 Steps to Kill Busyness and Live with Purpose, Productivity, and Peace. Busyness is not a badge of honor. It is, however, steeped in good intentions as busyness is an overcommitment to good commitments. Garland emphasizes the need to uncommit and get unbusy through his 5 steps. He also shares a few practices of highly productive yet unbusy people in time blocking and working around the whole schedule according to 4 buckets: relationships, rest, reflection, and recreation. HIGHLIGHTS Commitment, not time management, is the solution to busyness Busyness is overcommitment the same way hoarding is over-collecting 5 steps to get unbusy: Decide, Deconstruct, Design, Develop, Draw others in 4 practices of unbusy people: Relationships, Rest, Reflection, and Recreation QUOTES Garland: "As technology progressed, our boundaries in life regressed. And so, it used to be in Herman Kahn's day, you had an office and at the end of the d