The best view of the Manhattan skyline isn’t from one of the towers on Billionaires Row. It’s from across the river in New Jersey.
To see something clearly, we need to get outside it and at a distance away from it. This is what gives us perspective.
The same is true for ourselves, our lives, our businesses and projects.
The final weeks of the calendar year are often filled with holiday busyness, end-of-year reviews and new year planning.
These things don’t work well together.
To see where we have been and where we are , and plan where we are going, we must step out of time.
We need stillness and some distance — the opposite of busyness. We need the spaciousness of rest.
We are heading into the coming Winter Solstice, the longest night and the shortest day of the year. This is the calling from nature to rest, to step away from what we’re doing in order to see it more clearly.
The end of the calendar year is not the finish line to a race. It’s simply a corner to turn in a long marathon.
What would it look like and feel like to give yourself permission to rest over the final two weeks of the year, to end the year by doing less, rather than cramming in more?
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