W.I.N. Wednesday: Finding beauty in the empty days.

I recently came across this excerpt from May Sarton’s Journal of a Solitude, which was first published in 1973.

Finding Beauty in the Empty Days

I always forget how important the empty days are. How important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged, damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.

I have written about this concept before so why am I writing about it again? Because I suck at it. I suck at finding beauty in the empty days and I need a constant reminder of this.

I feel the need to produce work every day, seven days a week. That work might be writing a blog post, working on an upcoming presentation, or reading a research paper to prepare for an upcoming Excellence in Training Academy interview.

I feel like I used to be better with “empty days”. I am not sure if I am getting worse at managing my time when I am not on the road or if I have a diminished capacity for work on a daily basis. Whatever the reason, I need to work on building in an empty day occasionally, to let my mind rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room. Not necessarily every week, and certainly not ever day. I need to start small and build my capacity to create, and then find beauty in those empty days.

What about you?

What’s Important Now? Make space for empty days, then seek to find the beauty in them.

Take care.

Brian Willis

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