You think that your lives moves too fast? You should see ice melting in Iceland. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it put the world into stillness once and got a taste for slowing things down – even in melting. After an avalanche which is born from myriads of small lightweight movements, snowflakes and a lot of stillness, it may take a week to climb out if all this comes down on you like ONE idea. See avalanches as ideas – they take time to build up and very little to get loose. Now, I don’t know exactly when the world turned us onto each other in competition and international comparison, but I know that for surviving the era of quantification and being under constant pressure in a society of “more means more”… only a few do make it out by themselves, digging to the surface to be able to breathe leaving all the worries and commotion behind for a while – to recharge. Doing nothing is our anti-dote. Our gentle rejection to always jump through the next hoop. To look for quality time of reflection, to marvel at the snowflakes of our thoughts – to build avalanches of dreams, innovations, utopias, the next step. Slowly and joyfully, not driven, but driving. We suggest you take an oath with yourself, that you are not going to break by respecting your own time for yourself. You could say the snow will stop to fall, the miracles will never come, the appreciation will lack and life will run like sand through your fingers, if you are not Doing Nothing regularly – at least for 5min. Our artificial, conditions ethics of work as self-value and competition as the only way of producing value in life doesn’t hold a candle to man. Be the candle – be the (wo)man carrying it. Make your self see – and realise that when you run, the flame gets easily extinguished by the motion…
Do you see any friends running like chickens with no heads in their professional and private lives? Do you see a slender perfectly photoshopped life in a magazine not with the dark side of doubt and riddled through fear of vanity? What if a tag clipped to your shirt with “Busy Doing Nothing” printed on defines success in life? A tag attached to a worker who knows that he/she is doing enough anyways. Imagine a little Asian child with a blank expression on his face sitting outside a factory producing luxury goods for the West. Do you think it is happy in being forced to exchange its life of knowledge and mental opportunity through education in competing in manual labor and low wages with adults of the West who got laid off by their employers due to profit-maximisation? No? Well, look at our children´eyes all the delight which comes with gentle support and unfolding ones capabilities through play. That’s what you see at a toy store. And you must think you’re in a toy store, because you’re here shopping for a good life with balance and time to consume it, too. Not just waiting and toiling away for it.

Like you, I used to think the world was this great place for work with honest rewards for effort where everybody lived by the same standards I did. Then some kid with a nail showed me what real work is – staying in there in the wood and keeping things in place, doing nothing else. Some kid with a nail showed me the benefit of Doing noting and that I was living in his world, a world where chaos rules not order, a world where righteousness is not rewarded. That’s a Cesar’s world, and if you’re not willing to play by his rules, then you’re gonna have to pay the price. Refuse to play all the time the slave and carve out time to do nothing – time you need desperately to think and recharge. See it as a contingency plan – it’s intended to prevent the spread of the disease of being overworked and overclocked. Your metabolism, your brain needs rest from solving problems all the time. You can’t manufacture rest through doing more, more sports, more yoga classes, not even with more meditation, as still all follow the purpose of making you more productive. Unless they’re continually supplied with strength and happiness, people always on the edge will slip into a burn out and will be forced to rest – for a long time and regain their shape again after fragmentation. Well, the way to produce stillness of the mind is, they make time for stillness, switching off the cell phone and going for a walk. That walk and what you see and hear, is time for yourself. Then this experience fuels subconscious processes and eventually adds some snowflakes to the mountain top of your dreams and ideas. And eventually, another snowflake will create a mighty avalanche…