At one time or another, many of us have experienced what Gardner Merchant calls hurry sickness. Merchant, a contract caterer, conducted research on about 10,000 people in the UK in order to assess the developing needs of British businesses. By definition, hurry sickness is “a behavior pattern characterized by continual rushing and anxiousness; an overwhelming and continual sense of urgency.” As if that isn’t bad enough, it’s also defined as “A malaise in which a person feels chronically short of time, and so tends to perform every task faster and to get flustered when encountering any kind of delay.” Sound familiar?