Rick WhitePresident and Co-Founder of 180BIZ

🚨 Are you living... or just staying busy?

13 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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Rick White argues that modern busyness keeps us from actually living. We answer emails at dinner, think about work at our kids' ballgames, sacrifice the present for a future we can't control. Only today is real. The question: are you here, or just going through the motions?

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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living. There is nothing that is harder to learn. Think about that for a second. You work hard, you sacrifice, you stay late, you solve problems all day long. What are you actually living? Yesterday can't be changed. Tomorrow can't be controlled. All you got, baby, is today. You're home eating dinner, but you're answering emails. You're at your kid's ballgame, but mentally you're back at the shop. Your body is one place and your attention is somewhere else, right? Your life is in today.

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