I’m in my office at the moment. This morning I’ve planned next week, had multiple meetings and worked on some strategic moves for my business.
Ernie, my staffy, has been lying on my couch the whole time. Mostly asleep, sometimes looking at me.
He’s very happy, and way less busy than me!
Perhaps we make a lot of stuff up, to create work so that we feel valuable.
Perhaps we could be more like Ernie.
Perhaps I should sleep more on my couch!
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.