Walking the dog alone is secretly a daily meeting with your own thoughts. Show up to it.

Anything you do at the same time every day with nobody talking to you turns into thinking time whether you planned it or not. The dog, the bus, the last stretch of a closing shift. Those gaps are where half-formed things finish forming. Fill every one of them with a podcast and the thinking simply does not happen, which is how a decision gets postponed for months without anyone deciding to postpone it.

Leave one repeating walk unfilled this week. Set no agenda for it. Just notice what your head keeps returning to when it has room.