"You can feel like a tin can surrounded by a circle of a hundred powerful magnets,” he writes. “Many people are excessively busy because they allow themselves to respond to every magnet: tracking too much data, processing too much information, answering to too many people, taking on too many tasks — all in the sense that this is the way they must live in order to keep up and stay in control. But it's the magnets that have the control."

--Psych Edward M. Hallowell, author of “ CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap” (Ballantine Books, 2006) , quoted in a NY Times article on being wayy too, yes, busy all the time.