Five Inches of Prime Real Estate

You gotta admit, all the goals and dreams we have for our future—and all the creative work we’re doing to make them real—are competing for a  5” space, between our ears.

That’s where the ideas happen. The breakthroughs. The decisions. The progress. The occasional flashes of genius that make us believe we might actually be on to something.

Unfortunately, it’s also where doubt lives. Along with procrastionation, distraction, comparison, fear, failure, unworthiness, unfinished business, breaking news, and that annoying little voice asking, Really? 

And they all want—rather demand—to occupy the same five inches.

Important because maybe our greatest challenge as artists and treps isn’t finding more ideas, more time, or even more inspiration. Maybe it’s deciding what gets to occupy that limited space in our head—and how much of it we’re willing to devote to progress, or surrender to the monkey mind—moment by moment, hour by hour…