Here's a variation on the Sabbath theme that seems a lot more workable to me. ZenHabits has launched a Simplify Your Day program. Because it seeks to help participants
say “No” to:
- Commitments you can let go
- Appointments that aren’t absolutely essential
- Non-essential to-do items
- Multi-tasking
- Distractions
- Moving quickly
- Doing smaller tasks instead of important tasks
it seems to allow more space for the flow and demands of daily life and concentrate on what we really need—recognizing and focusing on what's important. Just stopping, which seems to be the focus of most of the writing I've seen, is pretty impractical if the people you're with aren't stopping too. Here's an approach that lets you stop when you can and when it's important.