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Mind Free What state are you in? Before the to-do list, a harder question: what condition is the person reading it in? A short field guide to naming your own weather. 9 min read

Mind Free Thinking, against going round again Both feel like work. Only one of them arrives anywhere. Three ways to tell which one you are doing while you are doing it. 7 min read

Mind Free The cost of a scattered hour What an interrupted hour actually costs, measured in the time it takes to get back rather than the time you lost. 6 min read Being written

Body Free The day decides the night Sleep is mostly a consequence of the sixteen hours before it, not a decision made at eleven. What Ayurveda noticed about timing, and what holds up. 10 min read

Body Free Eating by the clock, not the gap The same meal lands differently at one o'clock and at nine. Why timing changes digestion, and the simplest version of acting on that. 8 min read

Body Free Breath, the one automatic thing you can drive Your heart rate is not up for discussion. Your breathing is, and it is connected to almost everything else. Three patterns, and what each is for. 6 min read

Energy Free Tired, against drained They feel similar and want opposite treatments. Getting this wrong is why a holiday sometimes changes nothing. 7 min read

Energy Free The quiet arithmetic of saying yes Every commitment is borrowed from a future self who did not get a vote. A way of costing a yes before you give it. 8 min read

Energy Free Basic life skills that pay you back Cooking, sleeping, walking, saying no. Unglamorous, and each one returns more energy than it costs. What to learn first if you learn nothing else. 11 min read Being written

Growth Free Why understanding something changes nothing You read it, you agreed, you carried on exactly as before. That is the normal outcome, not a personal failing. What has to happen instead. 9 min read

Growth Free Stuck, or consolidating? A plateau looks identical from the inside whether you are about to break through it or about to quit. How to tell, and how long to wait. 7 min read

Growth Free The smallest useful change Permaculture asks where to intervene for the largest effect with the least force. Applied to a person, it rules out almost everything people usually try. 10 min read Being written