A weekend afternoon at home, and I’m already trying to fix how I rest
Even on a weekend afternoon at home, I keep weighing what I should change while I’m trying to rest.
Scenes
- Trying to rest, but thinking about habits to fix — On a weekend afternoon, even as I sit down at home to rest, I start thinking about the habits I should change. It feels like I have to fix them all today, and I freeze.
- Too many things to fix at once — Take a walk, go to bed earlier, spend less time on my phone. I write all three in my notebook and still can’t decide where to start.
- The major and yearly cycles offer different perspectives — In myeongri, the major cycle is viewed as a long-term pattern, and the yearly cycle as the pattern for that year. I look at them separately when considering which habit to change and when.
- Separate when to change from how much — The bigger picture doesn’t decide how you live for you. Choose what you can do now, then adjust how much you take on to fit the year’s pattern.
- Try making one habit a small step — Choose one thing you’d like to change today and scale it down to something you can try once this evening. Then notice how it felt.
- You don’t have to change everything at once — Even if you try once and stop, you’ll learn how much room that habit takes in your life. Next weekend, you can look at the experience, too.
Stories by Dowon
- Dowon
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