Staying busy every second can be a way to avoid hearing yourself. Leave one empty hour and see what shows up.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

A full schedule is a very respectable place to hide. Nobody questions it, it produces results, and it reliably prevents the moment where you would have to hear whatever has been waiting to be thought about. Being busy only counts as avoidance when the gaps are actively being prevented, and the giveaway is how you feel when a plan falls through.

Leave one hour genuinely empty this week, with nothing allowed in it, not even music. See what surfaces in the first twenty minutes. If what turns up needs another person, that is worth knowing too.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What would surface if you left one hour of this week empty?

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