I was going to title this post “Say no so you can say yes,” but I googled the phrase first and found that Zen Habits’ Leo Babauta has already written that thought down.
“We have to clear up some space [in our lives],” Babauta writes, “by saying No to things we’d like to do, but that are taking up space in our lives — space that could be used by something we really really want to do.”
If you’re watching the second half of 2017 jog toward you like a smug Usain Bolt, you might need to create some more room: room to breathe, room to feel, room to reflect, and, yes, room to do.
By June, for instance, I’ll have completed a full year of daily writing and almost-daily posts. I’m creating room for myself by not publishing new content to this website for a month. I’ll return in July with a new schedule.
In the meantime, read Babauta’s article and the Derek Sivers post that inspired him. Consider what they might mean for you, should you apply them to your own life.