Meaningful Returns

Here’s a thing to try: Set your phone and your wallet on the couch at home. Then put on some walking shoes. Then open up your front door. Then step outside. And then just stay there for awhile. Maybe right there on your porch, or maybe some woods, or a park.

You know something about that outside experiment?

It’s impossible to spend money.

It is also:

• easier to think
• good for your body
• a great way to meet your neighbors
• an opportunity for you to recapture a childlike sense of wonderment

It doesn’t matter that you can’t take pictures. You will remember the moment much better, in fact, if you don’t take a picture of it. All that matters is separating yourself from a distraction, and reuniting with what you have been distracted from.