Taking the Time to Lift Your Head Up
Whether deliberate or as an emergent behavior, we live busy lives.
I don’t see busy as being a good thing.
Productive is good, being busy for busy’s sake isn’t good.
We’re ushered into lives where a bell rings. Time for class.
Bell rings. Time for a new class. Now lunch.
We’re stuck in a car for 1-2 hours a day. Thinking about all those tasks you are behind on.
The sports team is playing tonight. The news has your least favorite politician on it.
Introducing a new video type - shorts. Your attention now is diced and sliced even further.
Now a new war. The media is all excited.
You wouldn’t be wrong for wondering whether its all designed to distract and hold your focus.
Taking the time to lift your head up and look to the horizon is important and something you should be cognizant of.
There are two points to the title of this topic.
Taking the time
Lifting your head up
Instead of looking down at what is immediately at your feet, lifting your head up to look to the horizon, the future. Possibilities, threats.
Staring down at your feet, you miss the universe of possibilities on the horizon.
This is the place where you can dream and solidify the design of what you future you will make come true. This is where you see leftfield ideas that no one else sees.
This is where you make connections across disparate topics and knowledge.
This is where new knowledge and creativity comes from.
We are herded into a life with constant threats and obstacles, stealing your time away, leaving none for higher order thinking. That of re-packaging knowledge into new compositions.
What does this look like?
An hour before the family wakes up. Thinking, researching
A long walk, while being internally quiet
Meditation
A solo hike
These are all tools I use to visit that lovely quiet area of inspiration. I do it daily.