Lying on your bed staring at the ceiling is underrated. Some of your best decisions start there.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Doing nothing visible is not the same as doing nothing. With no screen and no task, your head gets to run through what it has been carrying, and the conclusions you reach there tend to hold. It looks like laziness from the doorway, which is why people apologise for it.

Keep twenty minutes of it in your week and do not fill them. Phone on the other side of the room, no music with words in it. The decision you have been putting off has a decent chance of arriving there, since it has nowhere else to show up.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which decision of yours began while staring at the ceiling?

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