Thank you all for your candid thoughtful responses. As you've written "busyness" can be given many interpretations and serve many functions. In work situations situations[ or whenever we are attempting to establish status of some sort ] it's a word that we apparently must use in order to have any kind of credibility in the environment. But don't despair ,I've recently taken up answering the question, "how are you?" with the answer " very happy and very spacious." which has opened up interesting conversations. Of course in some circumstances it doesn't really make any sense to say how we are in any true sense and we just mumble something to to keep the conversation going. Still, words have meanings and we are forming an identity every time we open our mouth. Our relationship to our level of activity has a lot to do with our developmental level, in my opinion. By this I mean the extent to which we are caught/pulled into concern about survival as distinct from being more fully in the world of meaning/blogging/contribution we will likely feel that we must be busy [ in order to get something done and thereby relieve our anxiety ] and present ourselves as busy in order to fit in and get some semblance of support and recognition. So what I'm saying is that it's probably more important to attend to our developmental level instead of trying to reduce how much we do. What do you make of that?