Being busy is better than being bored

Find something to do! The feeling that we have too much to do is more pleasing than the feeling we have when we have nothing to do. Idle=TROUBLE!

A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon. If we planned out our time line in long chunks, say 20 years, we would never consider penciling in five or ten of those hours wasting time. Yet during the average day, we often let a few hours slip away. Time is a strange commodity, because we seem to have too much to do with it, until the moment we have none at all. We often complain about having too much to do. Yet having too much to do is a positive problem of abundance, while having too little to do is a negative problem of shortage.
Metro Plastics Technologies in Indiana tested out this principle by cutting the length of the workweek for its employees from 40 hours to 30 hours. And do you know what happened after the switch? The quality of the company's product improved, and the company actually made more moeny. Management found that giving workers more to do in less time made the workers more efficient, energetic, and enthusiastic and gave workers more free time outside the workplace. IN college kids, those with more demanding schedules were 15 % more satisfied with life. Despite the more demanding schedules, the individuals studied did not experience any more stress issues than those with less to do.

(Stats derived from Bailey and Miller 1998) The rest is me!!!