If you want to achieve more, do less.

That is to say, build time into your day, your week, your year for quiet.

In our house, following lunch, there is a period of mandated quiet time. It gives everyone a chance to do something they’d otherwise not do: nothing.

It could be napping, reading, working on art, or even listening to something specific on headphones—as long as it’s quiet and done alone.

For Kayte and I, it’s almost always napping, lol.

During that time, we can recharge. We can absorb what went on that morning. We can think about what we’d like to do with the rest of our afternoon.

Weekends can be like this. (Though for many and most, they’re the most hectic times of all.)

And summers too. A time to loosen your grip on the reins of consistency and productivity.

I think of it like letting a field go fallow for a season or like the pauses between movements in a symphony.

Without that space, the rest lacks definition, and it can be so easy to slip into automatic overdrive mode.

With it, the opposite is true.

We get more intentionality, more reflection, and ultimately more done.

Quietly,
James

If you want to achieve more, do less.

That is to say, build time into your day, your week, your year for quiet.

In our house, following lunch, there is a period of mandated quiet time. It gives everyone a chance to do something they’d otherwise not do: nothing.

It could be napping, reading, working on art, or even listening to something specific on headphones—as long as it’s quiet and done alone.

For Kayte and I, it’s almost always napping, lol.

During that time, we can recharge. We can absorb what went on that morning. We can think about what we’d like to do with the rest of our afternoon.

Weekends can be like this. (Though for many and most, they’re the most hectic times of all.)

And summers too. A time to loosen your grip on the reins of consistency and productivity.

I think of it like letting a field go fallow for a season or like the pauses between movements in a symphony.

Without that space, the rest lacks definition, and it can be so easy to slip into automatic overdrive mode.

With it, the opposite is true.

We get more intentionality, more reflection, and ultimately more done.

Quietly,
James