Fay's favorite five.

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Here is your weekly dose of Fay's favorite five ~ a 5-minute or five-second thought from me, based on something I’m loving, learning, or exploring.

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On real wealth

Most of what we want to do once we are financially independent is cheap.

It's things like a slow morning, a walk with no destination, a day without meetings.

Because the truth is: Real wealth is time.

But the paradoxical reality is: We spend time chasing money, then spend money chasing time.

This week's question: How can I optimize for having more time that is not filled with obligations or commitments?

On leisure vs luxury

"The enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner."

-Lin Yutang

Fay's addendum:

I appreciated this distinction between leisure and luxury. I think we often conflate the two, treating luxury as a stand-in for leisure. We picture the woman with the Birkin bag as the one with free afternoons to spend in the park. But a free afternoon in the park is, well, free. You don’t need to own anything to have one. And sometimes the chase for the bag is exactly what costs you the afternoon.

On staying young

"Childhood may be defined as the age of play; therefore some children are never young, and some adults are never old."

-Will Durant

Fay's addendum:

Rest and play are not the same thing.

Rest is passive. Play is active.
Rest helps us recover. Play helps us come alive.
Rest asks nothing of us. Play asks us to show up, a little silly and a little curious.

Most adults make time for rest but not so much for play.

Play is anything we do for its own sake. No goal. No output. Nothing to improve.

Running for a race is work. Running through the sprinklers is play.

Play doesn’t require a plan. Just a little permission.

A few ideas I’d like to experiment with:

• Trying a new food or drink
• Taking a different route home, just because.
• Wandering through a neighborhood I’ve never walked and popping into a store I’d never normally go into.
• A puzzle
• Learning a new game, Mahjong maybe
• Baking something new and indulgent

What's your favorite kind of PLAY?

On this week's challenge, from James Clear

Challenge yourself to have one new experience this week.

When everything around you is familiar, the days turn stale and slip by unnoticed.

A surprising experience breathes life into tired days and makes the mind fresh again.

What is one new experience you can have this week?

Please reply and let me know - I can use some bright ideas :))

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