A finished goal deserves a moment in which you are not already measuring the next one.

Ambition tends to move the line the instant you reach it, so the finish arrives and there is nothing standing there, because you are already in front of the next thing. Under that arrangement nothing feels like enough, no matter how much gets done. A pause is not laziness. It is the only way completed work ever registers as completed.

When you finish something, put a gap after it on purpose. A day, an evening, a walk with nobody to tell. Let it be over before you ask what comes next.