Possibly the most productive thing you can do right now is stop.

If you are reading this, then you are not in the middle of life saving cardiothoracic surgery, driving a car or working the pass in a busy kitchen.

Which means you made the choice to read this. Which I am grateful for, and I hope it benefits your life.

We make those choices constantly. To read a book, or to scroll instagram. Eat the salad or the chips. Sit quietly with our thoughts or distract ourselves, to choose beer or water. Each choice has an outcome and life is the result of those choices, most made unconsciously.

So? Stop. Use the appblock facility on your phone, read a book, drink the water. Become aware of the micro choices.

A challenge? Sit quietly with your thoughts. No journalling, no meditation music, no phone. Just you and your head. Of course, the caveat is to not do this is you have major mental illness issues or a significant past history of problems. In that case, seek professional support. For the rest of us, sitting quietly for 15 minutes, 30 minutes is a mind opening and productive process. Not even mindfulness or meditation. Just sitting quietly and observing yourself. Its harder than you think. The internal noise, the self talk, the attempts to distract and cajole. This practice benefits everywhere, boosting concentration, focus, discipline and awareness.

You got this.

Semper Pergendum.