When other people are an agenda item.

As I’ve noted before, everybody is busy. A side effect of that busy-ness is that our interactions with other people can start to have a quality of efficient productiveness, as if “call Mom” was item #7 on today’s list of things to do.

Have you been on the receiving end of that kind of conversation? What did it feel like? What can we do instead to remember that the people we interact with aren’t obstacles to clearing our to-do list?