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> Make every task you would like to do — including meetings, “to-do’s”, doing nothing, watching Game of Thrones — a calendar entry. If your stress level is so
by munchler 2y ago
> Make every task you would like to do — including meetings, “to-do’s”, doing nothing, watching Game of Thrones — a calendar entry.
If your stress level is so high that doing nothing becomes a task you have to schedule ahead of time, you’ve got bigger problems than a calendar app can solve.
- spiesd 2y agoIf you think of it more as a meditative time, putting it on your calendar seems to make perfect sense. Simple quiet off time is really easy to skip. Not work, not chores, not take a nap, not make dinner, not read HN, not play with the kids. Just sit and not do anything and not feel the need to do anything for an hour. To be sure, I do a whole bunch of nothing throughout the day, but that's usually just in avoidance of "productive" work. I don't feel meaningfully better having wandered off to get a coffee and stare out the window for a few minutes; in fact, I sometimes feel more pressure to get back to the grind, as if I'd wasted that time.