Tea gets stronger by sitting there doing nothing. Some days that’s your whole assignment.

Progress does not always look like effort. Some things deepen while you leave them alone, and stirring harder does nothing except make you feel involved. There are stretches where resting, or just letting an idea sit, is the actual work, even though it comes with no evidence you can show anyone.

Give yourself one afternoon this week with nothing scheduled and no guilt attached to it. Do not use it to catch up on tasks. Let it be dull on purpose and see what has quietly changed by Sunday.