Create space in your life for careful reflection.
Without it, you’re choosing ignorance to some of your life’s wisest council.
Which, doesn’t come from more YouTube videos, self-help books, deep dive podcasts, informational websites, or conversations with experts—per se.
It comes from your innermost wisdom that whispers advice pulled from EVERYTHING you’ve experienced/ learned/ consumed (informationally) throughout the course of your entire life.
Your innermost wisdom taps into the ocean of information that’s stored in your unconscious that’s just waiting to be explored and utilized. Another video, book, podcast, website, conversation is merely another drop or two into that ocean.
…Which isn’t to downplay the importance of consuming high-quality content.
It’s merely to emphasize the importance of turning off all of the inputs that are constantly pouring more content in, digesting the content you’ve already consumed, and giving your innermost wisdom a platform to finally communicate (which, worth mentioning, doesn’t always come in words… some of it comes in the form of symbols, metaphors, and stories that need interpreting… more on that here).
What does space for careful reflection look like?
- Journaling
- Walking
- Hiking
- Showering
- Driving
- Meditating
- Sitting and thinking
…Whatever you want it to look like, honestly. So long as it’s (1) undisrupted by any additional incoming information and (2) deliberately focused on reflection.
With those two elements in tact—consider yourself back in contact with your life’s wisest council.
All you need to consider now is how much time can you devote to its insight?
Because zero time daily is you choosing to be ignorant.
…And nobody is so busy that ignorance is their only choice.
P.s. Related: Everyone Who Says You Should Never Look Back Is Wrong.