From the 48days newsletter...always informative and inspiring:1. You need to “sit” longer.
2. Get away from your normal routine.
3. Go for a long walk, exercise more
4. Take an art (woodworking, sculpture, gardening) class
5. Put yourself around people who are high performers.
Henry Ford once said he didn’t want executives who had to work all the time. He insisted that those who were always in a flurry of activity at their desks were not being the most productive. He wanted people who would clear their desks, prop their feet up and dream some fresh dreams. His philosophy was that only he who has the luxury of time can originate a creative thought.
Wow! When’s the last time your boss told you to quit working and do more dreaming? Unfortunately, our culture glamorizes being under time pressure. Having too much to do with too little time is a badge of “success.” Or is it?
If you are feeling stuck, your solution may not be in doing more, but in taking a break from the “busyness” of life. Want to be more productive — try doing less. Go “sit” somewhere for a while!”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau
Thank You for this post. Your whole blog is extremely inspiring. I'd like to read and read, but paradoxically i'm so stuck into "busyness", i do not even have the possibility to write a little longer comment. Unfortunately, i'm not the only one in such situation of lack of time. That's a tragedy of our culture, i guess. But You, keep it on. Thanks again. I'll be back.
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