During my experience as a coach, I frequently encounter individuals who seem determined to subject themselves to unnecessary hardship. They believe every minute must be productive. The pressure of corporate burnout feels real.
For them, Eevery second of their every minute has to amount for something. No amount of success is enough, no amount of bank balance is enough, time spent sitting at a coffee table listening to someone who is worth nothing to you does not bring you the joy of human connection but the stress of wasting time. It is all a made-up idea of toxic over productivity.
This child like restlessness and this sense of frantic deliverable after deliverable, is making a whole generation sick. Let us learn to take a breath, listen to a song, write a poem, or read a poem, hear someone out, have a coffee for too long, look at a bird until you have read every feather’s every detail, watch a tree until you become one with it, observe the clouds until they take you on a dream. Let us give ourselves the gift of a moment of doing nothing. It might sounds hard but having done it, you’d know that your soul needed it.