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Creating Space: How It Can Change Your Life
Cresting Space: Room To Learn
2020 has shown us how important it is to upgrade our skills, which can be done in the comfort of our homes.
Creating space inside our minds is crucial if we want to learn and grab new opportunities and challenges.
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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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Reduce the stress of clutter
- Apply constraints and stick to them: to tabs open in your browser, notebooks, magazines etc.
- Use small storage spaces: Less room means less room for c...
Find places that inspire you
You might not be in a position to choose your workspace, but there are quick fixes: look for a spot with natural light from a window or skylight, take a walk outside when you feel stuck, or simply explore a new location.
A new environment can quite literally lead to new ideas.
Task association
It's when your brain knows that when you’re in a certain place, you’re taking a certain action.
Take advantage of the way different locations affect you. Our brains love habits, and if we can associate certain qualities with different places, it can help us get into a better working flow.