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Tangibles and Intangibles of Personal Space
Personal space is important to everyone.
You are probably familiar with this: “Space…the final frontier.”
So dramatic. Yet when it comes to finding or creating a personal space, whatever form that may take, it can have a pretty massive impact on your overall mindset and wellbeing.
Introvert, extrovert, or ambivert, everyone has a need for space. You need somewhere that you can call your own in order to reset, rest, regroup, and otherwise find yourself, by yourself, from time to time.
Space is not necessarily tangible. It can also be an intangible notion, a place that you can turn to in order to escape from people and things in some form or other.
How you define or create your space is going to be unique to you.
My space is my own
I have an awesome home office. In this space, I have my desks set up just so, and plenty of natural light from the windows. I have music and my bookshelves and various trinkets that evoke some emotion or other in me.
Some guys get into the whole notion of the “man cave.” I get the concept, but it’s not what I seek. For me, it’s the study. My office space is exactly that, my place where I can do my writing, podcast, meditate, and otherwise do the things…