If you have dog, start there. 🙂 If you don’t, you can always dog sit someone else’s (dog owners always appreciate this!), or you can observe plenty of dogs at a park.

Put your phone down, turn off all the screens, maybe find a toy, or just head outside. You could play in the yard, play fetch, do tricks for treats, go for a walk, or just snuggle on the floor. Dogs don’t really care what you’re doing, just that you’re giving them attention.

Watch and observe what the dog cares about, and what it doesn’t. Consider the simple things they can teach us. Like how they greet everyone and everything like it matters—a walk, a smell, even a person they’ve seen a hundred times. They don’t hide how they feel. And when it’s time to rest, they just do it (without feeling guilty).