I've accidentally discovered something seemingly counter intuitive. I get much more done, and done at higher quality, if I just sit and relax and do nothing when I'm tired or stressed or overwhelmed.
All my life I've been called lazy and told to just push through it. If there's a hard deadline I may have no option but to just pushing through, but if not, if I can give myself some time and space (and not stress on it or feel guilty) then in time I will be full of energy and brain power to be productive. How did it not occur to me to try this before now? (Okay, okay, I know why it didn't. Still it would have been a grand bit better to have had this information oh, say, five decades ago.)
