Growing older can make simplicity feel luxurious.

Fewer things, fewer commitments, a plain day with room in it: at some stage these stop reading as deprivation and start reading as wealth. Once you have had a crowded life, the ability to have an empty afternoon becomes obviously the more valuable state.

Protect a genuinely empty stretch this week. Not a rest between tasks, actually empty. It will feel unproductive and slightly uncomfortable and it is one of the few luxuries that costs nothing but refusal.