[entropie]

Easy to accomplish (at least for me). One word: Dog. I walk daily 90 minutes at least. There was a time (and another dog, but thats not the reason) where it was more like 120-200 minutes a day outside. I live in a fairly populated town in east Germany. We have a solid forest and lots of lakes around. Its great and like 20 years+ later I know most of them, but not all.

My coworker and I worked like a year together at my place. He came around, we drank a coffee together and started working. Like 3-4 hours later, depending on schedule, we took a good 60 minutes+ walk with my dog. We talked project related things sometimes, but it felt never like "we have to talk about work", We were kind of friends so we had lots of other topics. Then back at my place we continued for 2,3 or even 5 hours. We had no issues stopping after 2 hours, but did often way more. We were very productive.

We were a good match, but those breaks outside enjoying life (forced by my habits to go at least 60minutes outside with the dog) helped a lot not burning out and making room in the brain.

[rhodysurf]

I am similar and walk my dog for about an hour before and another hour after work every day. It’s amazing how much you can think through with dedicated time and space to do so, not to mention physical health benefits

[perardi]

A dog is also great for motivating you to get outside during bad weather.

Well. I suppose not all dogs. But get yourself some retriever mutt monster, and strap on those snow boots.

https://imgur.com/a/E8bPE5h

[abyssin]

Such a lovely story. Thanks for sharing!