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Creating Space: How It Can Change Your Life
Having Space: Inviting Serendipity
We are usually handcuffed to our busy schedule and have no time for the little joys of life, like having a stroll to the nearby coffee shop.
Creating space in our schedule, and stopping to smell the flowers or watch the sunset creates moments of serendipity in our lives that help us feel the magic of being alive.
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“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
Hans Hofmann
Remove decorations
... that no longer inspire you. Just because something made you happy in the past doesn’t mean you have to keep it forever.
Your life has moved on—maybe it’s time for the decoration to do the same. Keeping just the items that mean the most to you will help them to shine.
Reject the convenience fallacy
There are certain places in our homes we tend to leave items out for convenience. By leaving these things out, we think we’re saving time and simplifying our lives. That’s the convenience fallacy.
W might save a couple of seconds, but the other 99.9 percent of the time, those items just sit there creating a visual distraction.
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Reasons to Create Structure
- When we have a huge mess around us, it’s hard to be focused. It’s hard to really put our best effort into our meaningful work.
- Lack of structure creates a lack of trustabili...
Creating Impeccable Structure
- Recognize when a part of my your is messy and could use more structure.
- Contemplate a structure that would give you a feeling of trust.
- Write out the structure, then put it somewhere you’ll see it.
- Put it into action, as a practice.
- Revisit and revise on a regular basis.
Examples of Structure
- Financial structure. Create a system so that you are tracking your spending on a regular basis, and have a plan for how to spend it.
- Communication. Create a system for how you handle emails and messages.
- Health. Create a system for tracking how active you are and what will you eat to give yourself a thriving healthy life.
- Physical surroundings. Create a system to asses how messy your house is and how does all of this affect your mental state.
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Denying you have a problem
Stop saying that you don't have enough time to complete your commitments.
Admit that you need to get better at managing your time and start searching and trying techniques that will help you ...
Not planning your day
It's important to have an idea of what your daily priorities are and tasks you need to complete, preferably the night before.
Also, make sure you prepare in the evening the outfit you're going to wear and the meals for the following day. Doing this will save time in the morning, and reduce decision fatigue.
"Urgent" vs "Important"
Take all of your tasks and place them into four quadrants:
- To do first: the most important responsibilities that need to be done today or tomorrow.
- Schedule: important tasks that are not urgent.
- Delegate: essential items that are not important.
- Don't do: tasks that aren't important or urgent.