Pick a day, any day, preferably once a month but at least bi-monthly. Pick only one day so you won't feel guilty or self-indulgent. Schedule it as your Monastery Day.
On that day, you will seek seclusion. You may use the hours to think and plan, to read those management articles and books you've been putting off. It can be a great time to review where you've been and where things are going.
Take no phone calls unless they are true emergencies. Stay off the grid. Talk as little as possible. Seek new thoughts. Review old ones.
Ten years down the road you won't find yourself asking, "Why didn't I give myself time to think?"
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Actually, solitude and thinking isn't all its cracked up to be. Living fast, keeping busy, these are modern antidotes to thinking disease. The rational man avoids this at all cost. Thinking means one has to deal with all of the things that roll around in the subconscious. Solitude merely gives these raucous things an open door to get out. Thinking? Solitude? No thank you.
(said with tongue firmly implanted in cheek; which one I can't remember...it's too loud in here)
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