walking without a smartphone and the power of uninterrupted reflection.

The best thing you can do for yourself this week is going out from your house without your phone. Leaving your smartphone inside your house. That's the best thing you can do for yourself.

And this is highly amazing advice. I'll tell you why.

Because today I did it. I left my phone at my house.

Now, this is not an easy thing to do for me. I'm well connected. I have all my businesses, and I want to get all the notifications. There's a war going on, so I want to stay updated. Usually when I go for a walk, I take my phone with me and make phone calls—to my clients or potential clients or my family or just friends. Usually I'm all over the phone with contractors, with whatever. All of this.

And I decided to leave my phone at my house.

It was itching. I had this itching feeling when I left and was on the street walking. This itching feeling in my pocket, like something is missing. This tendency of picking up the phone, taking it out of the pocket—this tendency. For the first few minutes, I was like a drug addict, you know? Like having phone withdrawal. I need a phone.

After a few minutes of walking—and today is a beautiful day here, absolutely gorgeous, everything is after the rain, the sun is out, everything is green, many flowers, people are smiling—I started noticing all of that while I was walking.

And in my mind, all the reflections about everything that was going on in the past week or so, everything that has been bothering me, all the reflection just popped, just came up. They came up because I was neglecting them. I was neglecting them because I was running towards nothing with my phone.

My brain needed that time without being connected to anything, to any certain task. Just the time to reflect, to process. My brain is not a CPU. It doesn't have bytes. It doesn't have memory inside an SSD. My brain is an organic living thing.

I was walking for 40 minutes, I believe. I had a few tasks while I was walking, but mainly just walking. And that reflection led me to an action, led me to a current state, led me to connect with myself.

I realized: Wow. The fear of not being with your phone. The fact that your phone is also your lifesaver in case of emergency—like I need to be able to call the police if something is happening. This is one of the underlying reasons why I'm taking the phone with me all the time. Because if something happens to me, I want to be able to call someone that will be able to help me.

And I think it's a valid point. I think it's a valid concern.

But if I'm going out to a place where I'm going to have other people—or there may be strangers, but other people around me—I don't really need to worry. Of course, if I'm going to do something that is more remote than just me, maybe it would be best to take the phone. But usually, I am going out in the city. I'm going out to a place where a lot of other people, other strangers are there, and everybody has a phone in their pocket.

I feel like it should not be that big of a concern. Maybe not every day. Maybe not all day. I don't know. Just leave it at my house sometimes.

It's the best thing that happened to me today. And I think—I'm pretty sure, and I know that you know this as well—it's the best thing that will help you as well.

Leave it in your house.