The blank spaces in your calendar aren't waste. They're margin, where your focus returns and your future can breathe again.

The thought behind it

The work here is precision: calling the thing what it is instead of what it has been politely mistaken for. In Quiet Power restraint is the whole discipline, and it pays in a currency nobody else can see. Everything hinges on “9”, which is the part a politer version of this sentence would have left out.