show up first, take the first step, jump, and the rest will follow.
No.1 — Summer in the Med.The playlist. The philosophy. The place.
NOW PLAYING
No.1 — Summer in the Med.
56 tracks. 4 hours 49 minutes. The sound of arriving somewhere warm, with nowhere to be. Volare. Chan Chan. La Vie en Rose. Portofino.
"Put it on. Go somewhere else for a while."
THE PHILOSOPHY
Medicine treats the body. The Mediterranean teaches it how to live.
I have been going to Mallorca every summer for twenty years. Long before I had a framework for any of it, I was watching something unnamed. A way of moving through the day that was unhurried but never idle. Food that was real. Sleep that followed the sun. Work that was physical and purposeful. A connection that happened around a table and lasted for hours.
As a surgeon, I am trained to look for patterns. What I have observed in the Mediterranean — in the markets, the fincas, the long lunches, the evening walks — is the #5phabit framework lived without anyone calling it that. Sleep. Movement. Nutrition. Mindset. Connection. Not optimised. Not tracked. Just inhabited.
This page is my field notes. Updated every year. A record of what I keep learning from a place that has been doing this, quietly, for centuries.
Lift More: a day in Mallorca
sun, coffee & pool
ANNE MARIE
FIELD NOTES — MALLORCA
She has lived this for 30 years.
— A daily yoghurt mix, made from scratch, every morning without exception
— Aloe vera — drunk and applied — as a ritual, not a remedy
— Hours of gardening on the finca, which she calls work, not exercise
— Fresh almonds from her own trees — the most local nutrition possible
— Fasting, not as a trend, but as a natural rhythm, she has always kept
— Minimal screens — not as discipline, but as a disinterest in anything that pulls her from the present
— Good food, grown close, prepared slowly, eaten with people she loves
"She has never called any of this a habit. She has never tracked it, optimised it, or named it. She has simply lived it — and for thirty years, it has worked."
"The secret of elegance is to be natural —
and nothing is more natural than the way people live around the sea."
Inspired by Gianni Agnelli, 1921–2003