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Your body
You cannot think your way out of a body that is braced. This area starts there: the breath, the ground under you, moving, eating, resting, and the small physical things that change how the rest of the day lands.
Narrowed down
3 practicesTheme · Rest and pacing
How long you have
When · Any ordinary day
Half watching a programme while half answering emails is the worst of both. The work takes twice as long and the evening gives you nothing back.
Pick one and let it be the whole thing. If it is work, work, and you will usually finish earlier than you expected. If it is rest, shut the laptop,…
Rest is not the prize waiting at the end of the work. It is part of what makes the work possible, and it does not have to be earned first.
Self control runs down over a day the way a battery does, and the thing that fills it back up is properly stopping. What that looks like is yours to…
There are two jobs here, not one. Free up the time, and then be able to sit in it without feeling like a fraud.
Working more efficiently buys hours back, and that is the easier half. The harder half is the belief that rest is only for people who have finished…