Time Off: A Practical Guide to Building Your Rest Ethic and Finding Success Without the Stress

by John Fitch

Breaking your usual routine is one of the best ways to switch from spotlight to lantern mode, and to restore a sense of awe and wonder.

“The ability to cherish the ‘little joy’ is intimately connected with the habit of moderation,” Hesse believed. “For this ability, originally natural to every man, presupposes certain things which in modern daily life have largely become obscured or lost, mainly a measure of cheerfulness, of love, and of poesy. These little joys … are so inconspicuous and scattered so liberally throughout our daily lives that the dull minds of countless workers hardly notice them.”

microdosing of time off:

pause at least three times and notice something simple that brings a smile to your face.