A major pain at work today is lack of time. The clock is ticking. Think fast, move fast. You are expected to reach the goals and do great. Don’t slow down. If you snooze, you lose. Faster, smarter, better. The modern version of work is emotionally and mentally draining, with little space to reset the mind and reconfigure the brain.
Note: Continued reading can cause unpleasant feelings of wasting your time. The advice is to relax, take a deep breath, and allow yourself a few minutes to learn about the benefits of spacing. It may give you time to do more in the future.
Space is the total area within which everything exists, and life manifests. When you give space, you allow things to happen. You observe more, and react less. You leave information unnoticed and uninterpreted. It frees time and energy, as you refrain from ruminating over the past or worrying about the future. In Danish, we say “pyt” when we don’t want a minor detail to ruin the picture. We let go of the irrelevant to concentrate on the important.
What you don’t let go becomes problems to solve and things to consider. They can pile up and become a real burden. I once had a boss who tried to help me solve this problem. Write down your tasks in a list, prioritize them, and then start from the top, she said. Fine, but my problem was that the available time only covered half the list, which…
