• See the time as a gift The sooner you accept the time as a gift, the more time you'll have. How can you be present right now? You're alive. You have this day It might be a gift of more time with your children, or your beloveds, or yourself.

• Do nothing Plan nothing. See what you want to do with wide open space. Do it. Release structure. Don't judge your longings.

• Offer gratitude At the beginning and end of each day add a simple 'thank you for this day,' or a writing practice naming what you're grateful for, or a larger ritual.

• Notice that you are feeling In our daily lives, we can get too busy to feel our feelings. Feeling is life. Feeling helps us understand the next needed adaptation. All the feelings we're having are justified right now.

• Make it easy to create Put out opportunities to create, play and learn, where you can see them--watercolors, tarot deck, books, journals, a writing area.

• Learn something What do you want to know more about, or master, that you can learn at home? Sabbatical is about expanding what you know.

• Get with nature Nature is everywhere. Find the beauty of the sky where you are, the earth where you are, the creatures, trees, the water. Remember that you, too, are nature. What does your nature need? How can you balance your ecosystem? Care for your skin, water yourself, sweat, hibernate.

• Relinquish knowing You had other plans, your calendar was full, you thought you knew the future, but actually none of us know how all of this is going to play out. New articles come out every other day shifting the timeline, the protocols, the expectations. And that is just the external world...It's also never too late for you to change, to uncover new interests, longings, callings. Relinquish knowing, and get in touch with what you most love and care about. Whatever clarity we can have now, whatever possibility opens up for the future, it's going to be rooted in what we love.