I ran out of clean shirts, so I dug into a bin in the room where I'm staying and found a pink t-shirt I would never buy myself. On the front, in giant letters, it read:

DON'T TRY SO HARD

It fit pretty well. I looked at myself in the mirror wearing it and took it as a sign. It's true, I thought. I have been working pretty hard, and it's taking a toll. Also, hey, pink's not bad.

Choosing to see signs is like trying on beliefs, another variation on the same theme.

I got the idea from many sources, but one of my favorites is Robert Moss, "the creator of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of dreamwork and shamanism." He says:

Take your dreams more literally and your waking life more figuratively

Choose to see signs. Pretend that life is offering you clues, or at least jokes. Give yourself better notifications than the ones on your phone.

It's a good experiment because it can be low-risk and frequent:

See a sign; take an action. Watch what happens. Repeat.

I can tell you that, at least, this makes life more entertaining. As usual, you're developing your intuition.

And it's a kind of rewilding, or re-indigenizing (more to come on that).