Life happens in seconds, not decades. The 10 seconds after a decision point determine whether you expand or retreat.

So, if you feel dull, flat, or uninspired, it’s not that life has run out of colour. It’s that you’ve starved yourself of surprise.

Taking time to do nothing is, therefore, an act of authorship. It reintroduces choice inside patterns that have become automatic. It allows you to distinguish between what you are doing because you chose it and what you are doing because it has simply continued.