{"id":1205,"date":"2020-01-10T03:03:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T03:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2020-01-10T03:03:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T03:03:03","slug":"how-to-travel-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/how-to-travel-light\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Travel Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">When we travel, my wife reminds me that\u00a0I have two kids now; it is IMPOSSIBLE to travel light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Admittedly, I may be a minimalist by desire, but I pack like an opportunist. I bring stuff like an extra shirt, markers, 3 books in case I finish 2 in one trip, post-it notes, USB\/HDMI\/VGA cables just in case I might need them for work\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">The question I asked myself is how do we carry a sense of <strong>lightness of being<\/strong> in ourselves?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">We approach life with bows and arrows. We relate with life and what\u2019s to come like targets. We walk around not only with blinkers on, but with a certain sense of heaviness and visceral tension.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">One quality that manifests as a weight on our being is the invisible act of <strong>rumination<\/strong>. This mulling and chewing over stuff makes us travel with overweight suitcases in our tow. Not only that, many of the things in this mental luggage have low utility and value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">But here\u2019s the thing: telling someone to stop thinking about something that\u2019s bothering them isn\u2019t exactly going to solve the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Perhaps we have to learn to clear our minds, like the way we do with our real-world and digital trash. When we are done with the item, we place them in a bin. When the bin gets full, we empty the trash. In our inner life, we seem to think it\u2019s okay to retrieve the banana skin off the bin and scratch off more of the fruit to eat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">We can only hold so much in our heads if we want to be present in life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">In psychological studies, we call this <a href=\"tps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cognitive_load\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">cognitive overload<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">.<\/span> We need to learn to overload stuff from our minds so that\u00a0we can tune to the unfolding of each day. Try writing, doodling, bullet journaling, create to-do lists (don\u2019t forget to pair this with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/jessica-stillman\/trade-your-to-do-list-for-a-done-list.html\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">done<\/span><\/a> list, mind mapping, gantt\u00a0charts, Eisenhower matrix\u2026 and if your life is complicated, use project management softwares to assist you (<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/trello.com\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Trello<\/span><\/a><\/span> is one of my favorites).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">~~~<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Do you know of people in your life who travel lightly, who has a lightness of being when you are with them? Emulate them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\"><em>Happy 2020,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Daryl<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[92,9,91,93],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological","category-reflections","tag-being","tag-cognitive-overload","tag-producitivity","tag-rumination","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}