 So, I was speaking with a client who was feeling like she goes from thing to thing to thing without much time for thinking and reflection. And so, I want to ask you today, do you give yourself enough thinking time? And if we want to live a more conscious life, we want to run an authentic business, it requires us to have plenty of reflection time so that we can be more mindful of how we are approaching things instead of going by the reactions or going reacting to whatever is happening. Oh, this person needs this thing or I promised to do this, that we just bring more, like I said, awareness, mindfulness to it. So, I want to share with you a couple of ideas that might help you to bring more thinking time, reflection time into your life. And these are things that I do myself and I find it absolutely important. So one thing is that I don't work for more than an hour and a half or two hours at the max at any one time. And I know some of you like to work in long chunks and maybe that works for you. But for me, it's really helpful to take a long break after every two hours at the maximum. Now, my long breaks are 60 to, well, at least 30 minutes, if not 90 minutes, 30 to 90 minutes. And during that time, I might eat something, I might take a nap, I might go for a walk with my dog. But it's just moving the body, get some liquids, do some stretching. It helps to move the brain. And then while I'm working in those 90 to 120 minutes, during that work time, I also check in with myself a lot. So I do a lot of frequent breaks. So at least every half hour, I'm up doing a quick stretch. And every couple of minutes, whenever I'm aware that I am working, I will check in with myself and say, am I bringing love? Am I bringing my care to the activity at hand instead of trying to get it done, as it were, which is how a lot of us like to do things. We just want to get it done. So are you doing that? Are you checking with yourself frequently? And it's a practice that I've had to develop, because most of us are in a trance most of the day, right? Really you are in a trance right now watching this video. If I'm entrancing you, if you're watching whatever or reading something, you're in a trance. When you're doing something, you're in a trance. It's all trances, most of the entire day. But occasionally we get an in-between moment is what I call it. In-between moment is okay, I'm aware that I'm doing something. I'm aware that I'm watching something. I'm aware that I'm trying to figure something out, whatever it is. And those in-between moments are so important to be aware of and to go take a breath, right? And then it's like, what can I bring more of, how can I bring more spirit into the situation? Or am I going about this in a simple way, in a graceful way? Am I going about this too complicated? Am I doing this? Am I putting too much pressure on myself? And so those in-between moments are good to just pause and then hopefully do things in a more personally sustainable fashion. So that's very helpful too. And then a couple of times a year, I take a trip to go see family members. And during those trips, I don't do any work. I have no appointments. I have no requirements for my work scheduled so that there's plenty of kind of open time. And whether I'm with someone or by myself, I can have some time to just let my mind wander and think bigger picture thoughts. So what about you? Do you also give yourself, during trips, are you busy and are you doing things all the time? Or giving yourself time to kind of think bigger thoughts about your life, about your work, et cetera. So that's really helpful. And just kind of day to day basis, when I'm puttering around the house or when I'm walking to the park or even when I'm taking a shower or whatever, those times, I call those idle mind times. You don't have to be using your mind to do whatever it is in front of you. Those are idle mind times. And instead of idle mind times, just automatically letting yourself get stuck into mental loops of trying to figure something out or thinking about how you could have done something better or whatever mental loops we get stuck in. Let's be more mindful of those times. And what I do with those idle mind times, I have certain things I remind myself of. I'm taking care of my spirit. What's the virtue or value that I'm focusing on right now during this week? Every week, I kind of switch off to focus on a different value or virtue. And so it's like, I remind myself of connection to spirit. I think about some thing I'm trying to bring forth in character, virtue-wise. And then I evaluate, OK, how is my day going this far? And have I been aware of my in-between times? How can I do something more with more mindfulness going forward? And then I think about the next thing I'm doing, the next task, the next event I'm doing, and how can I bring more spirit to that thing? So and then after I do that exercise of doing these things, I then allow myself to wander or listen to a podcast or, you know, but a lot of times, speaking of, you know, a podcast or watching a video or whatever, we oftentimes don't let our mind be idle. We just are going from task to media consumption, to task to sleeping. You know, it's like our entire day, the mind is so busy. And so that's where, you know, we're missing out on this important reflection time. So we end up reacting to life instead of being more proactive because we are reconnecting again to our purpose, our values, our spirit, you know, bigger picture thing. So anyway, I feel like, oh, and then let me give you a couple of questions you might reflect on during your reflection times or idle mind times. Things like, what am I really here to do? What am I really here to do? How can I best contribute to the world? OK, what is the deeper purpose of my work? What has given me energy today? Like, what task or topic has given me energy today? Because if you keep noticing what gives you energy, you will learn about your own talents and strengths over time and shape your business to more utilize those strengths and talents. So anyway, I have a blog post that's associated with this video, but I just wanted to encourage you to be aware. Are you just going from task to media consumption, podcast videos, articles to another task to, you know, sleeping or whatever. And it's just, yeah, give yourself the spaciousness of mind, thinking time. For the client I was talking to, for her, it's riding a bike. So she goes on bike rides for others might be walking in nature for others. Like I said, for me, puttering around the house or, you know, like doing personal hygiene stuff, you know, brushing my teeth. So anyway, I hope this helps. And I look forward to seeing what you do to give yourself more reflection time. All right, be well. I just looking, taking a look at the comments here. Yeah, captain and Tara, Tara, thank you so much for your comments. And thank you for joining me, Paul, Todd, Suzanne and Susan. Okay, everyone, have a great rest of your day. Consider how you might give yourself more idle mind time today. All right, be well.