Melt. Lisa Walker

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      Chapter One

      I encounter an existential elephant

      Project: Monday morning routine

      Objective: Arrive at work on time, healthy, rested and ready for action

      6.15: Wake up (exact wake time determined by ‘wake easy’ app to ensure optimal brain function)

      6.15–6.25: Visualise day ahead (visualisation leads to peak performance)

      Critical event: Waking up on time

      The alarm wakes me at 6.17. The air is cool. Inside my apartment it is always twenty-three degrees Celsius – the optimum temperature for sleeping. Adrian slept over but left at five am to go running. He’s been running a lot lately. At first it was once a week, then twice, then three times, then daily. He’s training for the City to Surf.

      My dream lingers. I banish it. Unproductive energy. I only have eight minutes for structured goal visualisation. Dream analysis isn’t on the schedule – I work with the conscious, not the subconscious; the concrete, not the airy-fairy. Airy-fairy has been evicted from my life.

      Generally speaking, I don’t dream much these days, but when I do it is always the same. Awake, my eyes scan my room. The pristine white walls reassure me – everything СКАЧАТЬ