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Have you ever noticed that individuals are more innovative, energetic, stimulating, and engaging than most corporations? Let’s take a closer look at one such system: companies spend considerable amounts of money surveying their employees to find out about job satisfaction. Yet, this may not be the best measurement to use.

On the outside, busy seems to rhyme with happy. Busy people seem successful, needed and important. Busyness is, after all, serious business. Yet on the inside, busy is often a cousin of misery. We make it through the day, run to soccer practice, shorten our night’s sleep, survive through the week, and finish off what is left on our to-do list over the weekend. It is customary to describe our workload with words like crazy and expressions like “no time to breathe.”