The Power of Inaction

Sorry I haven’t been blogging for a while. Having joined a very exciting company with the aim to launch things users love (let’s hope!) means that there is a sudden surge of data. Some can be noise, some can be signals. It’s quite a journey to distill them… Forgot who said it but data is less useful until they become knowledge, and knowledge churning into wisdom.

But I still have time to read and hopefully be inspired, like this beautiful blog post today,

We can, and must have activity. Especially when the activity is one that we blossom in. The ‘thing’ that makes us ‘us’. The gifting and the skills that when we use, we feel connected.

However, to allow the activity to have any depth, it is essential that we allow room for contemplation. It is this which stops our activity from becoming purely superficial. And, in actual fact, the contemplation is the most active because it informs and feeds. Without it, we are running on steam, running on what we once knew and thought but not truly growing with the activity.

It is a misconception that to be still is to waste time, the opposite it true.