A few years ago, I came across this delightful article, Leaning Back , about the merits of doing less in The Economist. To think that there may be financial gain, not loss or trade-off, by doing less is intriguing. It is particularly useful for me to think about this as I am fully immersed in my "busy season". As the demands for my time is ratcheted up in every aspect of my life, I must discern how to spend the precious resource of my energy. I also like this idea because in recent years I've been putting in a whole lot of effort and leaning or resting has not been happening with a regular enough frequency. The once bottomless reserve of energy has been dwindling and the gauge is just above empty. I also read the book Lean In about taking our place as women leaders in business. It encourages women to put their resources towards building healthy relationships and reliable childcare (easier said than done) to enable themselves to take a full seat at ...