Every Once In A While
Rest: the missing ingredient in so many of our lives. Taking time to reconnect with ourselves and others, to find pleasure and peace is perhaps the most important thing in a world that is pushing us to constantly grow, produce and work more. Especially in an age where we’re encouraged to monetize our hobbies and have endless side hustles, there is... See more
instagram.comOur best work as creatives—big-picture thinking, creativity, strategy, ideas, connection—can only happen when stepping away.
Marlee Grace • How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care
We might have periods of furious output; to get there, we require periods of faithful input. With input, there’s a restoration of fertile, vibrant thinking. You might need a monthlong fallow after a big project. Or maybe it’s two weeks. You might even do it in a minor way — a half-day mini-sabbatical, say, to achieve what the Harvard psychologist
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