NORTHERN PLANNER

We live in a world that hates us switching off.

You're phone is designed to suck you in with the little beeps and notifications.

Youtube is specifically designed to keep you there for as long as possible, they have pre-roll inventory to fill.

Then there's work. Slack (FFS), email, zoom calls. 

To do your best work, you need focus.

Just as life needs focus too.

Cut through the spiel of mindfulness, it's only really about being present in your own life.

Actually tasting your food.

Talking to your children without your nose in your phone, or worrying about work.

We all find it hard to switch off right now of course, there is too much to worry about. 

One way to do is to find something else to obsess over. 

Take up a sport, a new hobby, it can fishing, tiddleywinks, baking whatever. 

No one has the time, but ask another question, how can you make the time? What really matters?

Because while you obsess over your hobby you are present, you're in the moment, you're alive.

You're likely to be in the flow state from time to time.

Which is one the most mentally beneficial things you can do.

It's a drug that's good for you and it's free. 

And while the mind is switched off, the sub-conscious gets to work on everything else while you're not looking. 

Sometimes the best way to solve problems is purposely avoid them.

Fun pays back. 

Who knew?