I've had a bunch of conversations lately about managing time, productivity, streamlining and the like. While I absolutely love a good discussion about getting things done, I think it's also helpful to periodically check in to see if we're perhaps pushing against the grain.
I love what Madeline Dore writes in I Didn't Do the Thing Today:
Perhaps we don’t want to be more productive in our days, but more fecund—that is, more capable of producing new growth, but not always in producing mode. Seen in this light, our days are like fertile gardens: a place to plant, to sow, to weed, to prune, to pick, to compost, depending on the season.
and,
To be fecund, we need to be nourished. This view shifts the emphasis away from the things we accomplish and toward the things that feed us: how well we have slept, how dedicated we are to something, how kind, how assertive, how generous, how well we treat the people we love, how much we learn, how resilient we are. We so often overlook these parts of the day, but it’s the very mulch that we need to yield growth.
Even if you're not growing now, how can you create the conditions that allow for new growth when the time is right?
Take care,
Camille
