The best thing you and I can do at the end of the writing day is to stash our work gloves in our locker, hang our leather apron on a hook, and head for the workshop door. If we’ve truly put in our hours today, we know it. We have done enough. It won’t help to keep at it like a dog worrying a bone.
I forgot who said this (I think it was John Steinbeck in Journal of a Novel):
Let the well fill up again overnight.
~ Stephen Pressfield, The Office Is Closed
Credits: Quote – Stephen Pressfield, The Office is Closed. Photograph – ufukorada
Live & Learn 
and do it all over again tomorrow –
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and again and again and again
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A feeling of contentment… that’s why they say your work is who you are. And I love the picture.
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So much wisdom from one so young! Yes!
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Smiling. Thank you! 🙂
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A simple thing we fail to understand. The most lucid way to put it – Great David 🙂
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Mr. Pressfield is wonderful writer and inspiration. Thanks Naveen.
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My grandmother used to call it “the pause that refreshes.” I end most days with a game of ball with my dogs in the backyard. Reminds me how fortunate I am to be my own boss, set my own hours, and commute in a matter of steps. When I spend the day writing and the piece turns out well, I’m suffused with a feeling of calm. 🙂
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You are blessed Friend. You are.
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I know it, believe me I do…
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something we should remember
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I think the trick here is “if we’ve truly put in our hours today.”
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And, we have. (Whether they were productive, that’s another story)
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Sometimes it takes longer than overnight.
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That’s true…
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Yet another benefit of a good night’s sleep.
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Yes. Period.
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