Tag: digital detox

  • Sober Up Your Monkey Mind

    Sober Up Your Monkey Mind

    The (Drunken) Monkey Mind This is perhaps the aptest description for your mind I’ve heard. Buddha described the human mind as being filled with “drunken monkeys.” In other words, he is saying that without discipline, our mind can be a wildly uncontrolled space. (Forgive me, as much as I searched, I couldn’t find a direct…

  • Availability Creep

    Availability Creep

    Availability Creep Availability creep is my current nemesis, and it’s yours too. As I sit here in my snowy retreat in the woods, I find myself checking – and replying to – my work email. I came here to escape and get away from the hustle of my day-to-day. Yet I keep dragging myself back…