Bored? Good. Use it as fuel.

With the “return to routine” going much slower than anticipated, the existence of frequent and substantive lulls is becoming more and more commonplace in our daily lives.

In other words, things have slowed down. A lot. And it’s no surprise. We’re just emerging out of a two-and-a-half-year pandemic. Cripes!

But the best part is that there were many gifts hidden within the rifts of COVID-19. The biggest gift is time.

Just like getting a fat tax refund or an unexpected windfall, our planet just got...