Living life like a walk involves a progression of four steps:
- Set up your home base.
- Walk your neighborhood.
- Walk your town.
- Walk the world (Explore the wilderness of compassion).
Set up your home base.
- Establish a minimum viable life management system that helps you manage actions and knowledge.
- Establish a minimum viable sustenance system, which consists of a source of income and a resource management system.
- Curate your immediate environment (your physical home) to support your values, goals, and habits.
- Establish habits, practices, and systems that optimize your mind and body.
- Establish your philosophy of living.
- Establish your poetics.
- Establish your preferences for relationships and community.
You don’t have to achieve all of these perfectly. You just have to establish a minimum viable version for each. Once a minimum viable version is established, you can start taking regular walks outdoors.
Use these first walks to find support and feedback to strengthen your home base. The more you strengthen your home base, the more you become capable of going out.
The process is non-linear; it is spiral. You stay at home to tend to your house but you go out regularly to expand and connect with others and the world. While you are building or tending your house, it is important to visit your neighbors for a break and to have conversations.
Walk your neighborhood.
Establish and nurture your inner circle.
Walk around town.
Establish and nurture your outer circle.
Explore and walk the wilderness of compassion.
- Attempt to show compassion and practice it as much as you can.
- Share your work and love to the world.
This exploration in the wilderness of compassion comes in different intensities. One might be contented working with or sharing one’s work to a small range outside one’s outer circle, or one could aspire to reach as much people as possible or attempt or see one’s work as something that involves all of mankind.