When offered the chance to donate to the Acumen Fund in exchange for getting an advanced copy of Seth Godin’s book, Linchpin, I jumped at the chance.
In true practice-what-you-preach form, Godin sent several emails after my donation letting me know about the status of my book shipment. When I received the book, there was a letter from Godin included which shocked me by starting with, “The scariest words an author can write are, ‘here’s my new book.” I thought, Seth Godin…scared? Cool.
OK, I admit it. I don’t want to make any New Year’s resolutions this year. Why? Because I have no idea what they were last year – probably something to do with working out more, getting a rewarding job or some such thing. And then there’s the fact that I tend to set lofty goals and don’t really have a good system for keeping track of them.
We’ve discussed creating and honoring space to gain added clarity and creativity on decisions, ideas and direction. Is there a “right way”‘ to best make use of this space we create?
If you don’t create space for your ideas, decisions and direction to exist but they’re still somewhere on your radar…guess what? These things will take up precious emotional real estate.
Viktor E. Frankl is quoted as saying, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
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