Pressure, stress and urgency. And the importance of making space.

In these days, when everyone is rushing, and everything is urgent, how do you really slow down? How do you find the ability to de-stress and unwind when everything around you calls for attention? When everyone around you is constantly poking you and distracting you? 
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​By making space. Making space in every part of your life. It is never about adding more resources, and it is not how you maximize how you spend your time. It’s by making more space. 

​Create more space in your calendar, add an extra hour after lunch without anything in particular planned. Add an extra day after coming back from a trip, just so you can land in your own home again. Build in more margin in your budget, to avoid that financial stress in the end of the month. And definitely add extra margin when it comes to how you spend your energy.
Never operate on 100% capacity. Leave room for the unexpected, leave space for when life happens - because it will. 
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The difference between stressed and calm isn’t more resources, it’s more space. 
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