Recharging batteries

Posted by: fracas on July 16 @ 9:43 pm

Vacation! Finally, we have got a date! August 1st is D-day and we are leaving for the South of France. I can hardly wait. It’s come to a point where I feel I can’t go on much more without having a break. The last days my creativity feels completely zapped. It impacts my work. I’m not as productive as I should be, and my action list, as well as my inbox are spiralling out of control. I feel I have lost the overview and the more I try to shift through the tasks the worse it gets. So I decided to do something contradictory to anything I normally do in situations like these: Take a break!

After a couple of appointments and minor administration I took Sebastian out for a long walk. With my iPod fully charged, I walked for hours through the city centre and beyond. I walked through neighbourhoods I don’t often come to, and the sights that met me triggered memories of past summers in my youth. Of running barefeet through green grass, and making daisychains…

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Evening….I’m relaxed. No work today. Instead I’ve been reading, sleeping, walking, thinking… Sometime insights comes when you least expect it. Simple, trivial, yet they fill an importance. I’m off to bed soon. Tonight I shall sleep so well.