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Clear a Space

Accountability Challenge # 2

Rick Lewis
Mar 31, 2023
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Break the Rule Pretend You Don’t Matter using accountability challenge # 2.

Clear a Space

This challenge is to reclaim one space that belongs to you, not to your stuff.​

Our ability to be present can be invoked or banished by our physical surroundings.

If we want to give ourselves a chance to show up sometimes we have to clear a literal physical space for that to happen.

I recently moved my computer completely off my desk to a standing work station, leaving my desktop clear and empty. I'm now sitting down several times a day there and able to show up differently. Rather than facing a computer I'm facing me— my thoughts, ideas, a few letters I've received, one that I've started.

Allowing clutter to occupy the strategic locations that are designed for us to unfold—or to simply be as a person—is a way to Pretend We Don't Matter.

The clothes covering the chair; the papers, toys, mail, and miscellaneous items piled on the kitchen table; the television staged front and center in the room; even the inconsequential details we put in the center of our attention — all of this abets a displacement of space that could be protected for us to think and reflect, to feel and be.

Reclaim one space that belongs to you, not to your stuff.​

What's the first space that comes to mind you need to reclaim?


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