Steve, I was very moved by your 2025 Review. Thank you for sharing such a candid piece. Your courage to face fear and pain is inspiring. I have been facing my own past pain and also seeing the benefits. I also admire your commitment to learning and growing. It was generous of you to share your review with us. I'm grateful.

Greetings fellow MM tribe. In addition to the monthly themes that MM suggests, I also choose a yearly theme. This year it was “stillness” and next year I’m focusing on “silence.” I wonder if any one else chooses a yearly theme or focus?

Good afternoon all, just curious, for those who have used both the daily and weekly planner, which works best for you and why? Does anyone use both simultaneously?

We've had a number of new members join in the past week as we prepare for our workshop Wednesday.(if you haven't already - make sure to mark your calendar if you are able to attend at 1pm ET.) As such, I thought it would be helpful to paint a picture of what you can expect from Basecamp moving forward. At Monk Manual we are dedicated to helping people shift from machine time -> human time. Everyone in this group, myself included, was born into an era where being human meant being productive - and this production based mindset has impacted virtually every area of our life. It impacts how we approach our time It impacts the direction we set for our lives It impacts our relationships It impacts our health It even impacts the way we approach our spiritual life For years, we had been presenting the Monk Manual as a better mousetrap as it were in the productivity space. But we've realized that this doesn't really honor the real change people need in their lives. Productivity thinking has all the right answers to the wrong questions - and as such never really delivers on the seemingly elusive peace and purpose we are all after. Weren't not offering an improvement on productivity thinking, we are offering and entirely different alternative to productivity, one focused on serving vs diminishing our humanity and what actually leads to human flourishing. The urgency to take up this flag has only been accelerated by the adoption of AI and the meaning crisis that seems to be taking hold at increasing rates. Basecamp will be a place to begin a new season in your life, one marked by living time like a human rather than a machine. So what should you expect? 1. Over the coming weeks we will be rolling out some videos introducing the TimeWise framework which will provide you with an overview on how you can begin the shift. I'm really looking forward to sharing this with you, it's been a long time coming. 2. We will also soon begin hosting live calls to help you with your Monk Manual practice, and time practice more broadly. 3. Throughout 2026 we are going to be hosting workshops each month tied to themes that we will be working towards together.

I just received "Abandonment to Divine Providence" by Caussade, going to stay focused on being more intentional but inviting all of God's Will into my daily life first. For years i had it backwards. What book are you all starting the year with?