I’m giving you a no bull guarantee this time…
My last article made me think about taking the bull by the horns, seizing the day, making the most of it, getting on etc etc. Life really is too short to not try things if you want to, and there’s no point rumbling about the things you wish you had and not enjoying the stuff you actually do have.
Trouble is, how does all this management bullshit fit with an ethos of ‘stopandstare’ idling? Somewhere in life there has to be the ability to be proactively idle? To actually go out of your way to do nothing?
I really believe that no matter how pumped up on double shot espressos and berocca you are that you need some idle in your life. Just plan that 10 minutes, an hour, an afternoon or even an entire week into outlook and mark it as ‘doing nothing’ and set your status to busy. It’ll confuse the hell out of people who want to check your availability for a meeting if nothing else.
I don’t think it matters if your do nothing time is sitting on the steps of St Pauls eating noodles and watching the gammy pigeon with one misshapen foot, sat on the sofa with the fire lit and the TV turned off, pulled up in a layby with a sandwich and a view or walking by the sea/river/hill/wood. The aim is to find some time where you don’t talk to people, you don’t have to pretend to be polite and you can just be. Watch the world, natural or man made, as it passes by. Soak in the calm that doing nothing brings.
For those busy busy types who have to be doing something, lay off the coffee, stop taking the red bull, turn the mobile off and go on, what the hell, loosen the tie…
