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The empty day: why your calendar needs one
One day a month with nothing planned sounds like a luxury. For most of my clients, it is the first place real change begins.
Iris Calder
Life coach, ICF PCC
When a client tells me they have no time, I believe them. Then I ask to see their calendar, and we look for one thing: a day, or even half a day, with nothing on it. There usually isn’t one.
Why a full week feels empty
When every hour has a job, there is no space left to notice how you feel about any of it. You move from task to task, and the week ends before you have had a single original thought.
How to protect one empty day
Book it like a meeting, a month in advance, and give it a boring name.
Plan nothing, but prepare: groceries done, phone on do not disturb.
Allow one gentle anchor, like a long walk or a slow breakfast.
What people find there
Boredom first, then restlessness, then, usually by the afternoon, a thought they have been too busy to hear. That thought is often the start of the work we do together.
Written by Iris Calder
Iris is an ICF-certified life coach based in Lisbon. She helps capable, busy people rebalance the life they’ve built, one small change at a time.
