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Are you guys ready?
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This is going to be really quick.
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Alright. I am going to tell you a story.
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It's a story about my day, but it might also be your day.
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I wake up, I grab my phone, I check some email,
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I catch up on texts from last night, maybe Twitter,
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maybe for you it's Facebook, blog posts, news.
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And now I am plugged in and ready to keep going on my day.
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So, let's get to work. I could work on this project, or this project or this project.
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The client has already e-mailed me
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five times since last night,
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and -- but right now, I need a -- actually talk to a different client.
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I could email her or I could have an instant message conversation
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or a video chat, or a -- maybe a phone call,
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but, right now someone's bugging me on Twitter
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and I've got to get back to them.
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And then another client calls and, you know,
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his request is really reasonable,
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but it's really urgent and I've got to drop everything that I am doing
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and -- What was I doing?
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It doesn't matter. It's lunch time.
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And, what did you have for lunch today?
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I mean, I bet it was the same thing you had yesterday, or the day before that,
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or the day before that. But, let's get back to work.
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I like to listen to music while I work.
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My phone has got about a few thousand songs,
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but with the Internet I can stream just about anything.
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I need to work out after work.
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I could go for a swim, or rock climbing, or maybe a bike ride, or do some yoga --
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but, I am gonna head out on a trail-run.
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Then I am going to run some errands.
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And you know, they are out of my favourite kind of toothpaste
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and there's like four other kinds in the same brand,
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but there's like twenty on the shelf in front of me.
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Back home I am gonna watch some TV and while watching TV --
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You know, cable gives me a few hundred chanels but the Internet gives me just like anything.
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Or I could read a book. I've got, you know, four, five books I am reading at any given time.
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But, I've got access to a lot of things and, you know,
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you could tell me about the book and I could actually be reading it
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pretty much by the time you've done telling me about it.
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So, we live in this world full of abundant choice and it's really awesome.
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I mean, I can get on a plane and flight anywhere tomorrow.
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But that choice comes with a cost. That toothpaste example--
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we're finding the consumers when faced with too much choice, are actually choosing not to choose.
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It's just easier to not make a choice and have those choices be made for you.
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So, what does it have to do with minimalism?
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Well, minimalism is this idea of taking things and stripping them down,
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to hopefully make them a little better.
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It's maybe that "less is more", or as Dieter Rams says: "less is better",
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And, we can take some of those ideas and move them into our daily life.
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But, it's not about just stripping everything away.
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It's about curating our lives actively, removing distractions,
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removing something before adding something new,
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or finding that wider negative space in life.
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It's about changing the way we do something so that we can focus better.
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So how are you doing with this things everyday?
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Are you just frozen when you have to choose a new toothpaste?
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Do you constantly lose focus or add way too much to your life?
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We want to live really full lives and that's the way we should do it.
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But, part of living a full life is finding negative space,
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it's finding a way to process our day.
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For me, that's everyday when I get to go for a run and just let my mind wander.
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So, I am going to leave you with this one question --
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In your daily life, what is your negative space?
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Thank you.
