My great, late, mentor once taught me in order to get a major project done, you need to spend time every day going for a walk.

Going for a walk will give you some exercises, clear your head and allow you to be alone with your thoughts without the constant inputs of society. Not surprising, all the great thinkers and artists of the last two hundred years also spent time every day going for a walk.

Sometimes you fail to understand how on point a person is until you’re confronted with the reality of how right they are.

We’ve crossed a threshold in society where spending time alone with your thoughts isn’t the default. Music (or podcasts) in our ears, in our car, Wi-Fi at every coffee shop and the temptation to constantly check our phones is the norm.

The exploding popularity of mindfulness and meditation doesn’t surprise me as a fight against this issue.

In some ways, we’ve forgotten what it’s like to be alone with our thoughts. To experience solitude (very different from loneliness) without having to mark the occasion is becoming a memory.

We can also be fearful of what might happen if we just let our mind do its thing.

Going for a walk every day, without anything in our ears or buzzing in our pockets, might be the real solution we need now. It doesn’t require specific poses, chants or instruction to do properly, and it can do wonders for you.