Are you a Hurry-Sick?

      It's an article from Fortune China, the minute I finished reading it I have the urge to share it with my colleagues and some of us do have this hurry-sickness. Read the text below to find out if you are one of us, and how to improve our behaviors.
      Eating lunch at your desk while also checking emails and talking on the phone, or watching videos? Are you doing something else while on conference calls or even while brushing your teeth? We find ourselves multitasking now and then, but did you realize that you habitually interrupt someone who's talking?  Do you always get frustrated in a checkline or in traffic, even when it's moving along smoothly? When microwaving something for 30 seconds, do you feel the urge to find something else to do while you wait?
      I got shot by all the above symptons, and they happens more and more frequently these days, like I can't help myself to interrupt others when they are talking or explaining or giving me directions, I was trying to save the talking time though what I meant is to make things easier and simple, but I just realized it was too rude to do that, especially to your customers. While I'm waiting for the microwaving heating my food, even when I'm eating, I can't stop myself from multitaking. 
     If one ore more of these symptons sounds familiar to you, you probably have a bad case of malady that pshychologists have dubbed" hurry-sickness", a sure sign is repeatedly pushing the door-close button on an elevator, says richard Jolly, a london Business School professor and executive coach. 
To the hurry-sick, five seconds can seem like forever. About 95% of managers Jolly has studies over the past 10 years, both in his MBA classes and his coaching practice, suffer from the aliment, defined as the constant need to do more, faster even when there's no objective reason to be in such a rush.          Eventually, hurry sickness really can make you sick, since it increases the body's output of the stress hormone cortisol, which surpresses the immune system and has been linked with heart disease.
What's more, despite the fact that many executives see it as a badge of honor, hurry sickness can also damage your career even before it wrecks your health, because being in an incessant hurry has a way of making people miss the forest for the trees.
"We are losing the ability to stand back and think, and to work smarter rather than harder" Jolly observes. "Technology often get the blame, but technology isnt's really the culprit. It's just that being connected every minute of the night and day means people are easily distracted by minute instead of taking time to slow down a bit and ask the big important questions."
     One unhappy result is that hurry-sick employees and managers ofen get pigonholed as anxius overachievers, a type that is useful, indeed indispensable, in organizations. But they become increasing bitter when more thoughtful-and perhapes less hard-working managers get the top jobs.
     Overcoming the conditions is deceptively simple, but usually takes some determination. First, identify which goals are essential, eighter for succeeding in your current job or taking the next step up. Then, carve out time in your day to focus your attention exclusively on them, with no distrctions.