Hi, my name is Andy, and welcome to Radio Headspace, into the start of the week.

So you the kind of person that does the same thing every day.

Or you someone who is constantly mixing things up, that every day is a little bit different

and you're always looking for different ways to approach different things in your life.

I have this situation in my life where my friends tease me a lot, I mean for lots of reasons,

and with good reason. But they tease me because I tend to do the same things a lot of the time,

and they joke that it's because I'm institutionalized, kind of having been a monk and everything else,

wasn't there for that long. You know, I tend to have the same breakfast every day. I tend to have

the same lunch every day, tend to wear jeans and white t-shirt every day. There are things that

for me are just quite comfortable, and when I look back even over the last however many years

since leaving the monastery, I can probably see what they're saying. I think I wore a plaid shirt

for about eight years after leaving the monastery, and then a denim shirt for another seven years.

I find comfort in showing up the same way, and I have other friends as well who only wear black,

and they wear the same black things like every single day. Not God, they're just, you know,

the crates and they like to wear black. And there's something in the simplicity of that. I feel there's

so much choice in our life. There's so much going on in our life. Almost the busier things are

the more I crave that sense of simplicity. As I think back to the monastery and the way in which

the day and even the year is set up actually, it's really defined by that idea. Every single day

is the same, every single week, every single month. Even to the extent, I mean, I remember kind of

they gave us two hours off on Christmas day after noon, after lunch one year, but other than that,

it's the same, all the time. And at first that may sound very restrictive, it may sound very limiting,

may not feel as though there's a lot of room for spontaneity, but it depends how we think of

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