Don’t Let Space Be Alien

In Your LifeMaking Room For What Matters

Wilkins-O’Riley Zinn

Who am I anyway?

Am I my resume?• Edward Kleban

Each of us does many things that are never found on a vita, yet are integral to who we are.

Begin your life-listas a way to illuminate the throughlines of your life.

Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere.

Allow yourself the time and space to let your

mind wander and your imagination fly.

• Oprah Winfrey

Write about time: at home, at work, anywhere. What do you

take time—and need time—for?

We may go to the moon, that’s not very far.The greatest distance to cover still lies within us.

• Charles DeGaulle

Sometimes, It’s About You:

Respect for a need for self-care is particularly important in our increasingly workaholic society. Americans

work longer hours and more weeks of the year than do our European counterparts. We have little time left

to regenerate our energies and resources, to participate in the artistic, nonmaterial, spiritual, or

other inner-directed aspects of life upon which we all depend for our individual well-being. A commitment to caretaking should include this concern, along with

the demand that society and its institutions be organized so that the emotional and nonmaterial

aspects of life are not ignored.Martha Albertson Fineman (2004), The Autonomy Myth,

pp. 288-89

Just Say No!

Most of us are so busy doing what we think we have to do that we do not think about what we really

want to do.• Robert Percival

Make a Space BookHome•Work: Fill each page with possibilities.

It’s About Time!

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions

drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what

you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

• Steve Jobs

Which of your activities energize you, sap your energy,

or just need to be accepted with grace?

Imagining the possibilities.

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If you don’t like what you’re doing, then

don’t do it.• Ray Bradbury

YourHome•Work

:Create a plan for a voyage into the spaces of your life.

Record it on the paper provided, put it into the envelope in your folder, address it to yourself.

Seal the envelope and leave it with me. I’ll mail it to you

in a few months.

Never let the urgent crowd out the important.

• Kelly Catlin Walker

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting,so get on your way.

• Dr. Seuss

What do you do when you ought to be

doing something

else?Share your procrastinatory

activities on the card provided—include age, gender, date, no name

necessary!

When I can’t figure out what to do first today, I pick out my tie. It seems to get

my creative juices flowing.•High school teacher, 1997

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