By Harvey Castro, MD, MBA · Emergency physician
Under two minutes. One reflection, one question to carry through the day, one small action. The nine-module course and both books come with it. Written by an emergency physician, in the gaps between shifts, for people whose work matters.
Start the year, $49$49 for the year, down from $99. Or take one a week, free.
Most things built for depleted people ask depleted people to find time. That is the design flaw. A workshop assumes an hour. A journaling habit assumes a quiet morning. A meditation app assumes you remember it exists on the day your shift ran three hours long and you ate standing up.
These take under two minutes. Not because two minutes is optimal, but because two minutes survives your worst week. A practice you keep on your worst week is the only kind that changes anything.
Day 19, exactly as subscribers received it.
Day 19 · Beingness
I see another person's visible result without seeing every resource, constraint, or sacrifice behind it. Comparison becomes less useful when I treat incomplete information as a fair measurement. I can admire something specific while returning to the conditions of my own life.
Carry this question
What context am I missing in this comparison?
One practice
Replace one broad comparison with one specific skill I could learn from the person I admire.
Tonight
What can I learn from this person without comparing whole lives?
That is a full day. There are 364 more.
One a week
Free
A single practice every Sunday. Yours for as long as you want it, and you can move up whenever.
You are on the list.
One practice every Sunday. If it lands in Promotions, drag it across so the next one reaches you.
Something went wrong. Write to harveycastro4@gmail.com and I will add you by hand.
The SAPIENT Year
$49 for the first year
$99 after the founding 500
All 365 practices, one each morning, alongside everyone else in the cohort. Plus the nine-module course, with a worksheet in every module. Founding members keep $49 for as long as they stay.
Both books and the course included
SAPIENT Daily and A Life You Can Sustain as EPUBs, and the full course as a PDF. Downloaded the moment you join, and yours to keep even if you cancel.
Checkout is on Payhip. Card or PayPal. Cancel any time in one click, and you keep every file you have downloaded.
Or $7 a month. Cancel any time.
Register your copy and the daily practice is yours free for 60 days. No card, no discount code, nothing to cancel if you decide it is not for you.
It does not matter where you bought it or whether it was paperback or Kindle.
Register your copyBoth books stand on their own. SAPIENT Daily is the full year of 365 practices. A Life You Can Sustain is the method behind them. If you would rather read at your own pace and skip the daily email, buy either one on Amazon.
They are also included with the year, so there is no need to buy them separately if you are joining.
Find the books on AmazonClinicians. Residents. Nurses. Founders. Anyone carrying decisions that affect other people, on a schedule they did not fully choose.
You do not need to be in medicine. You need to be someone for whom a bad week has consequences beyond yourself.
It will not fix a broken schedule. It will not repair a department run by someone who should not be running it. It is not a substitute for therapy, and it is not treatment. If you are struggling in a way that frightens you, please talk to a professional. I mean that plainly, as a physician.
What a daily practice does is smaller and more real. It gives you one place each morning that is yours before the day starts making demands. Over a year that accumulates, not because any single day matters, but because you stopped going a whole year without asking yourself anything.
Will this actually reach my inbox?
It should, and there is one thing you can do to make sure. When the first email arrives, reply to it, even with a single word, or drag it from Promotions into your Primary tab. Both actions tell your mail provider you want these. If you are on a hospital email system, add the sending address to your safe senders list, or use a personal address instead. Hospital filters are aggressive and they are not tuned for you.
What time does the daily practice arrive?
Early morning, before most shifts start. The point is to read it before the day begins rather than to catch up on it later.
Do I start at Day 1?
Everyone moves through the year together, so you join at whatever day the cohort is on. That is deliberate. A shared cadence is what makes people talk about it, and it is what makes the practice stick. New subscribers get a short welcome series first.
What if I miss days?
Nothing happens. There is no streak, no counter, and nothing to fall behind on. Missing a day is not failing at this. Delete it and read tomorrow's.
Why are the books included?
Because you should have the full method if you are going to practice it daily. The books are the map, the course is the guided walk through it, and the daily email is the walking.
Can I cancel?
Any time, in one click. No conversation required. The daily emails stop and the online lessons close, and every file you downloaded stays yours, both books and the course PDF.
Can my organization run this for a team?
Yes. Residency programs, nursing units, and health systems can run a cohort together, with reporting on engagement. Seats start at 25. Write to harveycastro4@gmail.com and the details will be sent.
One practice. Under two minutes. For a year. The course and both books on the way in.
Start the year, $49$49 for the founding 500, down from $99. Or $7 a month. Cancel any time.
Harvey Castro, MD, MBA · Board certified emergency physician
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