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If possible, leave your phone in your car once you're there.

And then go wherever this place is, walking around the lake, going through this museum, go to this novel place, spend an hour or two, bring your journal, write down your thoughts.

All right, let's ratchet up the disruption level to be a little higher.

Level three of disruption, book a 24-hour escape.

Now, what I mean by this is I actually want you to book an Airbnb or hotel room someplace that's nearish by within a few hours, okay?

You're going to leave after work.

You're going to drive out to wherever this place is.

You'll stay in that Airbnb or hotel room that night.

You will then spend the whole next day into the afternoon there.

Just being in this place, it's a new city or maybe you got an Airbnb that's in the countryside somewhere, on the shore, whatever.

Spend time in that place.

You can keep coming back to the Airbnb throughout the day to do some journaling and then come home like you would at like the end of a workday.

So you have to like take one full personal day to make this particular strategy happen and you have like a night where you're staying somewhere.

All right.

Level four disruption, fly to Asheville.

You don't have to literally come to Asheville, but you do something like that.

You fly somewhere that is notably novel or beautiful or aesthetic or interesting.

And you spend a few days there and you really like get into like what's going on.

Like what do I want to do with my life?

All right.