Creating Empty Space

Why is it important to cultivate empty space? You know, at the beginning of episodes, I’m always faced with the big why of the episode. And personally in my life. I’ve been looking at this question this question of cultivating empty space for very important reasons. So many times in our lives, we experienced that burnout, we experienced the over hard charging commando style work ethic, or we fill up our schedules all the way to the brim. And a fill cup can’t take on new water. And an order for that cup in order for that vessel that that chalice to take on new water, it must empty a bit it must create empty space. So there’s virtue of value and empty space. It creates a balance. It gives us an opportunity to recharge and reset the system without taxing its processes.

Just like you have a computer, you got four core processes, the processes are always thinking by offloading some of the demand on that processor, we give ourselves the ability to go in new directions or optimize old routes. You look in businesses, you look in people’s family lives, you look in communities, and when you’re going so hard or you’re going one, one speed, and that’s all the time when and where are you leaving an opportunity to improve by doing the things that you did yesterday today and plan on doing tomorrow? When does the innovation occur? When do you take your game to the next level? In sports? They have an offseason. What is your offseason? Have you cultivated the empty space to give yourself a chance to tune into the divine creator this willing to whisper the next step in your ear and so that you can hear it.

But it’s hard to hear something when you’re hard charging from event to event work to home home to this, this, to that, cultivating the empty space allows for the message to be received. Because guess what our mind cannot double task. There is not a call waiting like our phones have developed. We’re not on conference speaker where all these cacophony of voices are getting through. Clearly. That’s not happening. Therefore, I’ve talked about this in a previous series of podcasting with halftime talks, I’ve talked about two weeks cycles. I’ve talked about minimalism. I’ve talked about batching. I’ve talked about all these little strategies that we can do to free up more time. And I’m not saying it’s easy, I’m not saying it’s logical. I’m not saying that it makes sense exactly where you are.

But we can begin to cultivate that time because I guarantee you something at first, it will feel awkward. But over successive weeks successive months, you will begin to find the balance, the time will allow that voice to speak to you and guide you. When is the innovation possible, if all you’re doing is taxing the system, you are killing the goose that has laid the golden egg and you will find yourself at a later age asking yourself, where did the time go? Where was the opportunity for me to grow, because if you, I’m gonna tell you this, if you are waiting on the institution or organization, that company that you’re involved with, to push the agenda of your own improvement forward more than you’re willing to do for yourself, you are in a coldest sack of thinking you’re in a dead end.

Until you make yourself the priority. And that’s important to hear. You have to make yourself a priority if you are to grow and evolve. And I say a big component of that is cultivating the empty space just to sit down and relax, to relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Can you do that? Can you sincerely enjoy the fruits of your labor? Are you scared that the productivity Gods will punish you for taking a second for yourself, cultivate this empty space? Allow yourself to be rejuvenated and replenish by the time that you set aside for the divine voice to come and converse with you. I think it’s possible. I think you deserve it. I think you’re capable. And it’s going to begin and he’s a Nike was places it may begin by maybe waking up a little early or for lunch finding that quiet place that’s that’s well beyond the grasp and touch of your co workers turning off your phone and finding these quiet, cultivated empty spaces.

It’s your first step to experience the fruits of your labor and the bliss of life. I’m not saying it’s everything but it is something and it starts somewhere and that somewhere should be now. So that is cultivating empty space.