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By Leo Babauta
We will often start our days with the best of intentions … and then promptly get caught up in a chain of busywork, messages, opening browser tabs, checking on things, answering email …
… and soon the day has gone by and we wonder what we did with the day.
There’s a simple practice that can shift that in a huge way: the Interstitial Ritual.
It’s very simple:
- When you finish with a task (or email, message, reading something) … pause. Don’t go to the next tab or message right away.
- Take a breath. Notice where you are, how you feel, what is around you.
- Write down what you just finished, if it was a task. For me, I have a Today list and a Done list and I simply add the last task to my Done list, remove it from the Today list.
- Celebrate! Reinforce your accomplishment by being grateful.
- Now take another breath….
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