Of course I was too crazy busy to watch the entire segment on the Today Show this morning about the book "Crazy Busy". But there were some key thoughts that did resonate to me personally and I think would to all of us given our interruption-driven days. Many of them we already know, but forget.

Fragmented tasks equal lost time and efficiency.

Schedule your own time to allow yourself to "go deep" instead of skipping like a stone across the surface. Just surface touching on multiple projects creates the illusion of truly being busy, but nothing ever really gets done, or completed for that matter.

Especially with the nature of our work and the need to focus for a period of time and get into a creative groove, it's important to know when to not check email, when to shut the phone off, and when to be offline. Without that, it is too easy to fall into being "busy" to a point of counter-productivity, or even worse... counter-creative.