When is the last time you did absolutely nothing? I thought about this recently because I just read (in the August 2009 Real Simple) an article by Tom Hodgkinson on “10 Ways to Enjoy Doing Nothing.” At first, (before I’d read it) I thought it must be a frivolous article. After all, who has to really feel guilty about a little time off? And then I remembered: me!

To me, it’s the women that get this feeling more than the guys. How often have you had an hour free and then thought, “Now I can …read more