Crazybusy

Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handling Your Fast-Paced Life

By: Edward M. Hallowell M.D.

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Are you too busy? Are you always running behind? Is your calendar loaded with more than you can possibly accomplish? Is it driving you crazy? You're not alone. Crazybusy–the modern phenomenon of brain overload–is a national epidemic. Without intending for it to happen, we've plunged ourselves into a mad rush of activity, expecting our brains to keep track of more than they comfortably or effectively can. In fact, as attention deficit disorder expert and bestselling author Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., argues in this groundbreaking new audiobook, brain overload has reached the point where our entire society is suffering from culturally induced ADD.

But as Dr. Hallowell argues, being crazybusy can also be an opportunity. The impulse to be busy can be turned to our advantage once we get in touch with our needs and take charge of how we really want to spend our time. Through quick exercises (perfect for busy people), focused advice on everything on everything from lifestyle to time management, and examples chosen from his extensive clinical experience, Dr. Hallowell goes step-by-step over the process of unsnarling frantic lives.

In CRAZYBUSY, Dr. Hallowell offers sound, sane, and accessible guidance for anyone suffering from the harried pace of modern life. If you find yourself pulled in a million different directions, here at last is the opportunity to stop being busy, start being happy, and still get things done.©2006 Edward Hallowell; (P)2006 Books on Tape

An incredible commentary on one of the most insidious problems of our time. The misconception that busyness is success.

Truly helpful, infinite gratitude to you Dr. a I am a 50-year-old police officer, in a workaholic, most of my life, much of the things most important to me have passed me by. Enough time for my family, my friends, extracurricular activity I’ll trade it in for an over active sense of duty and the need to protect and serve 60 hours a week. I will work hard to apply your strategies. Sincerely, Brody Seagraves from Los Angeles.

Great

I enjoyed the book. I agree with his assessment and I will apply the lessons learned. Great listen.

Makes me realize I have no choice but to slow down

This book was a blessing to my overwhelmed mind. I also ordered the printed book so I can run off a page or two to give to others who question my mental stability. Those same people who don't use a computer (or claim they don't know how to do some task in particular), but rely on me to do their digital work for them.... and request it whenever they have a need. No wonder I'm so distracted.
This book also makes me feel an urgency to make my grown children understand how much too much information can hurt them. Hopefully this will be well known by the time they have children.

Excellent except for the charts

This is an excellent book and for those of us with Crazy Busy lifes, being able to listen on the go is extremely helpful. The narrator does an excellent job and the book has a number of good ideas that even the best of us may not have thought of yet. The only challenge, as it would be with any self help book, is when the book gives you charts or lists of activities to do. For those of us with such crazy busy lives, the time to go back and manually recreate the charts and lists of actvities may never come.

Good But Tedious

Good book, interesting information but nothing that I would say is useful if you are looking to get help with AADD. The author coins phrase after phrase after phrase to the point of it being laughable.