Peggy Sullivan – How to Beat the Busyness Addiction
SEASON: 5 EPISODE: 32
Episode Overview:
Welcome back to the Becoming Preferred podcast, the show dedicated to helping you achieve more and reach your highest potential. Today, we have an incredible guest who is going to challenge everything you think you know about success and productivity.
In our fast-paced world, we’re taught that being busy is a badge of honor, but what if that very belief is holding you back from your true potential? Our guest is here to show us a new way. Peggy Sullivan is a renowned keynote speaker, author, and researcher who has dedicated her life to helping individuals and Fortune 500 companies break free from the “hustle culture.”
As a self-proclaimed “busyness addict in recovery,” Peggy has developed a transformative, research-backed methodology called the “Busy Busting Framework,” which she outlines in her latest book, Beyond Busyness: How to Achieve More with Less. Get ready to rethink your approach to work and life, as Peggy shares her powerful insights on how to achieve peak performance without sacrificing your well-being or happiness. Join me now for my conversation with Peggy Sullivan.
Guest Bio:
Peggy Sullivan is a renowned keynote speaker, author, researcher, and expert in the field of overcoming busyness and achieving peak performance. With years of extensive research and a transformative methodology, Peggy has helped individuals and organizations unlock their true potential without compromising well-being or happiness. Her research-backed framework has been successfully implemented by numerous individuals, teams, and Fortune 500 companies, including Google, Bank of America, Blue Cross BlueShield, and Ingram Micro.
Driven by her mission to shift the narrative from busy to fulfilled, Peggy is dedicated to empowering individuals and businesses to prioritize meaning and happiness over the Huscle Culture. In her latest book, “Beyond Busyness: How to Achieve More with Less,” she teaches her signature Busy Busting Framework, a practical three-step methodology that has already benefited thousands, guiding them away from the busy treadmill and towards a life filled with intention, fulfillment, and remarkable outcomes.
Resource Links:
- Website: https://www.peggysullivanspeaker.com/
- Product Link: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Busyness-Achieve-Doing-Less%EF%BB%BF/dp/B0DGMPZTBG
Insight Gold Timestamps:
01:23 I think you wrote your book, Achieve More by Doing Less. Break Free From the Busyness Trap, for me
03:22 I had four wake up calls
05:55 My dad and his family escaped the Holocaust
07:44 I knew I had a problem, but I didn’t know what the solution was
09:10 We identified 25, what we call busy habits, low value activities
09:53 Whenever you’re trying to change an addictive behavior, you have to replace it with dopamine
11:04 An interesting concept that you introduced was the concept of time poverty
11:44 We forget about how busyness impacts our colleagues, our friends, our workers, our families
13:52 And there are so many “times sucks”
15:20 It takes the average person 23 minutes to reclaim the mental state that they were in
17:52 I researched over 12,000 people to understand what values equate to quality of life
19:35 How do we get our mojo working in the right direction?
20:20 Being in customer service is a really hard job
22:07 I believe that values are very universal
25:01 In 2023 you came out and created the busy report
28:07 It takes daily diligence
28:37 What would you do with five to seven hours if you had new found time?
30:00 Human connection is the most important currency we have
31:52 Knowledge is power
32:30 The challenge is, when you’re in the middle of it, sometimes you don’t see
33:23 We can self-correct, but we need to become self-aware
34:03 Check out peggysullivanspeaker.com
35:19 As soon as you start to subtract low value things, you already feel relief
Connect Socially:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggyasullivan/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peggysullivanspeaker
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyVk8tpyJYL_aqyqb6HOLGA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peggysullivanspeaker/
TedX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo1Bmz8q-BM
Email: peggy@peggysullivanspeaker.com
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About the Host, Michael
Michael Vickers inspires enduring success, redefining the possible for today’s sales professionals, leaders, and managers. Whatever the sales or business opportunity, Michael will greatly enhance your odds of success. Every person who has an idea to promote, an employee to motivate, or a deal to negotiate, will attain a new level of success after an event with Michael.
Michael is also the best-selling author of Becoming Preferred: How to Outsell Your Competition, and Dance of the Rainmaker: Creating Authentic Differentiation in Today's Competitive Marketplace, where he shares his secrets to achieving the very highest level of sales mastery.
Whatever the result you’re striving for, if it involves influencing others or achieving success through others, Michael will build your confidence and accelerate your performance.
Michael is the Executive Director of Summit Learning Systems, a company that offers customized in-house training programs to many of today’s leading companies. He teaches thousands of business professionals throughout North America the skills required to achieve optimum performance.