Tying together a few comments I'm seeing here (farms, meditation, electronic device & information overload), I'll bring out the importance of nature. Some ideas

Tying together a few comments I'm seeing here (farms, meditation, electronic device & information overload), I'll bring out the importance of nature. Some ideas: if you like running, try trail running do find a friend with a farm or garden and spend some time working there weekend camping is often possible, whether in desert or forest, and sometimes it's easy to make it a 3-4 day trip. if you really need something hard that's not programming, push your physical boundaries a little on the hike. Nothing to clear and focus the mind like "it's 5 pm, the sun sets in an hour, bad weather is coming in, we have 4 kilometers of canoeing until we get to the campsite and then we need to set up the tent!" Maybe I shouldn't really "recommend" this as any good wilderness type will have tried to avoid this situation. I just took a long trip to the countryside and the lack of nature even in my tree-filled neighborhood was a shock when returning. And you can learn a lot from observing nature: trees just grow, animals do what they do; in their environment they don't fight their own nature and try to do something else.