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Oct 19, 2026 8 min

Day 5 — Getting Lost in a Book

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Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Does everything I do have to be productive—even reading? After a stressful week, I’m turning to something I’ve loved since childhood: getting lost in a fictional world. No serious reading goals, no lessons I’m supposed to learn. Just a story I want to enjoy. In Day Five of Discipline Diaries, I’m talking about mental exhaustion, the guilt that follows me into my downtime, and why even colouring became another thing to overthink. I’m still learning how to enjoy myself without mentally counting everything I could be getting done. Today, I’m choosing a book and trying to let that be enough.

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