Why do you feel busy all the time?

Not having enough hours a day seems like a problem most of us are facing right now, but are we actually so busy or are we just feeling that way?

Main hypothetists suggest that life - style change is not the extra working hours.

In short, while there is no final answer to this issue, our great support in technology makes things look feverish, even when that should be so. A great amount of information (in the Internet), a “behavior at all times about”, and the way smartphones keep us connected to each other all the time, are all the reasons why we can't relax as much as we need.

The rapid progress of technology has benefited, but it has caused a further overload of information, clouding the boundaries between labour and leisure, and enabling a more sophisticated monitoring and surveillance of employees”- suggests a recent report to the United Kingdom. So even when we're not working, we feel like we're at work.

Last year, psychologist Oyfe McClugli from James Cook University in Singapore published a study that supports this idea. It found that using modern devices as smartphones can actually make time seem to be moving faster. It's almost like we're trying to imitate technology to be faster and more efficient”- says McClugli. “Looks like there's something about technology itself that encourages us to increase the mechanism inside us that measures the passing of”. Perhaps a surplus of options on leisure also has its effect, as suggested by a 2003 U.S. study. Basically, there are so many options of free time things to see, places to read, movies to watch that it makes us feel like we have less time to go, even if the opposite is true.

This is related to the paradox of choice: while having many possibilities seems something positive, this can actually create anxiety. Another possible reason why we feel occupied all the time is that being busy is related to success and self - realization in most modern societies. Because of this, we are more likely to fill our time with efforts to show others (and convince ourselves) that our lives are on the right track, and that we are doing the “better” than those around us.

Some studies have even shown that we prefer to be busy. Author of “Time Management” Tony Kreib, says the problem with the feeling of being too busy lies with what he calls our endless “Our endless” world. In essence, many of us have disappeared from fields or factories to engage for a few hours of work a week by checking our e-mails all the time. Kreib says that the pressure to cope with an endless amount of work and an endless amount of opportunity to spend leisure time makes us feel more tense than ever before.