What? Niksen is Dutch for “nothing,” and it appears in this article, The Case for Doing Nothing. Being busy gets confused with being important and it’s causing us all issues, some of them major like burnout (especially for millennials), anxiety disorders, and stress-related diseases.

Daydreaming — an inevitable effect of idleness — literally makes us more creative, better at problem-solving…more productive.  

Tips to help you stop and be:

• Make time for doing nothing, and do it with purpose
• Be unapologetic that you are doing…nothing
• Sitting still might be uncomfortable at first, practice
• Create the right place – devices out of reach, a perching spot you like (at home, at work, in a park…)

Get busy niksening.

Leslie Phillips
CEO