I love learning new words. I am always amazed at people who can coin new words on their own. In a new book called Crazy/Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD (how's that for an impossible title?), author Edward M. Hollowell created these words to describe our modern world:
Sceensucking: Wasting time looking any screen; video game, television, computer, etc.
Taildogging: Allowing the tail to wag the dog. Going faster or pushing harder on yourself or your kids or your business just because other people are doing it and you don't want to left behind.
Frazzling: Multitaking ineffectively
Doomdarts: An obligation you had forgotten about that suddenly pops into your consciousness like a poisoned dart.
Kudzu: The unstoppable, unkillable stream of unexpected minor requests from people everywhere that slows down humans down.
Info addicts: A person addicted to keeping up second by second with what is "going on"
The Megaloctupus: A beast made of people who try to steal your time. It pursues you daily, extends its tentacles and tries to stop you from accomplishing tasks.
Is there anything about your life that is crazy/busy?
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