So, on holiday, my family likes to do nothing. If you ask my kids what they want to see at a town, they say, "Nothing. Let's stay in the apartment, eat and sleep."
I understand. During the rest of the year, my children and husband spend their days doing something all the time. It is rare to see my kids and husband dawdle and mosey about, relaxed. So, when The Husband and I watched the latest Pooh Bear movie on the plane, Pooh Bear's words stuck, and we decided to make it our holiday mantra.
When you do nothing, it leads to the very best of something.
In Spoleto, that mantra paid off handsomely. We planned nothing and arrived in Spoleto open to any possibility. It was thus that we ended up going on a hike. It appeared to be a popular walking/jogging and mountain biking trail. On the way up and down, we met locals on their morning walks or jogs. At the top, there was a magnificent view of the Ponte delle Torri (Bridge of the Tower). This is a humongous walkway spanning the tops of 2 mountains. On one mountain, sat a fort belonging to Lucrezia Borgia (yes... we saw this name in the previous post and I will share the salacious details of her life in the next post). On the other, sat a tower (you know, like Saruman's tower).
It was a lovely hike in a place that tourists never go. So you see, when you do nothing, you do get the very best of something.
It really is not as nonsensical as it sounds. When you aren't always busy doing something, you open yourself to flashes of inspiration that come from random thought. These flashes of inspiration may be the game changer that increases your performance a hundredfold. When you aren't always doing something, you also are more aware of opportunities that present themselves and yet again, these opportunities could be the game changer that would increase your performance a hundredfold.
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