Americans are busy people. Just ask one. The frenetic pace of modern life is expected. 5 or 6 hours of sleep is normal. Family time consists of scheduled events after school seemingly every day of the week. Busyness is a status symbol for most of us. If you’re busy you must be doing great things. Yet for all of that time spent doing stuff, we don’t actually accomplish anything. Americans are fat and in debt. Our families are falling apart. We aren’t reaching our potential as individuals or as a nation. We need to focus on being productive and on reaching purposeful goals, instead of signing ourselves up for every social event, business meeting, or after school activity that comes our way. We’re too busy to succeed. Instead of living the stress filled American life, let’s define what is truly important in our lives and say “yes” to those things. Then start saying “no” to everything else.