A recent news article from Reuters caught my attention.  Titled, "Americans work more, seem to accomplish less", the article laid out Amerca's increasing ineffectiveness and exhaustion in the workplace.

It seems we have a love affair with Doing and the addiction is technology.

The article points to research conducted for Day-Timers Inc, a maker of organizational products.  The study found that 60 percent of workers say they always or frequently feel rushed, but those who feel extremely or very productive dropped to 50 percent from 83 percent in 1994.

Email, voice mail, cell phones, instant messaging.  You know them all.

"We think we're faster, smarter, better with all this technology at our side and in the end, we still feel rushed and our feeling of productivity is down," said Maria Woytek, marketing communications manager for Day-Timers.

It makes you wonder who's leading who, like the dog chasing his tail.

Email seems to be one of the biggest External Drivers out there.  I struggle with this in my own life.  I get about 400-500 emails a day and despite spam filters, about 35% is still unsolicited email.

Instead of setting boundaries around these External Drivers, many of us try to work harder, faster, smarter.  We tell ourselves we can DO MORE.

And we end up being less.

Are you chasing the tail of "Doing More"?