2015-09-10
3 分钟This week's good Life project riff is entitled embrace the space.
So my usual writing spot is about a ten minute drive.
But on Sunday I would walk to it an hour each way.
No cell phone, nothing.
Just me, my backpack, and a path that would wind across a bridge from one area, through the woods, along a river, and through the park.
Walking instead of driving.
I literally lost nearly 2 hours of writing and to do listing, email, social media, conference, calling, outlining, building, designing, all that other stuff that in theory needs to get done.
And that's hardcore productive time just poof, gone.
And you think to yourself in the beginning, well, you got a lot to do, so it's pretty damn stupid to do something like that.
I mean, I'm a busy guy, no time to waste.
A launch deadline this week, people to serve, legacy to build, blah blah blah.
And I would think that a lot.
And I would wonder as I was doing it.
And then I realized that actually that was really the wrong way to look at it.
Because in the mindful window that opened during my walking, not only did I get my exercise in, not only did I drink in a stunningly gorgeous day, not only did I absorb myself in the meditation of life as it unfolded and ramped my creative and cognitive abilities and my mood, I stumbled upon two awakenings.
One was a realization about movement, stillness and clarity, and a very cool visual demonstration.
So more on that down the road, I think.
But two, an innovative solution to a seemingly intractable business challenge.
I've been grappling with something that kicked off a cascade of secondary realizations that may well lead to not only a substantial shift in the way that I build my business and professional path, but the experience products services I create for others.
So it's about creating space, those moments of in between that we increasingly fill with tasks often enabled by the near impossible to escape umbrella of digital connectivity, all in the name of supposedly optimizing productivity.