Sitting for Ideas

The Space to Create

These days everyone has a lot on their minds. The economy. The holidays. Wrapping up the year. The mortgage meltdown. Travel. Family. Not to mention the usual day-to-day life and work.

With so much conversation in your head, how is it possible to break through the clutter and focus on the things that matter most? How do you have room to solve problems? The flexibility to create and ideate?

Here at Digital Onion, we do something that we like to call “Sitting for Ideas.” It’s a simple process that can help you create the mental space you need to let the answers you’re seeking come to you effortlessly.

The next time your struggling to find and answer, stop looking and let the answer find you by following these simple steps:

1. Find a clean, empty room. The more minimal, the better. Lock yourself in.
2. Leave cell phones, iPods, computers, people and ALL DISTRACTIONS at the door.
3. Place a blank piece of paper and a pen/pencil in front of you.
4. Just sit there.

The sitting without distractions allows you to clear your mind and let that which is important become clear to you.

It’s a simple process that yields unbelievable results. We use it often at Digital Onion, and the answer has never taken longer than 15 minutes to find us. Usually it comes closer to 5 minutes.

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If you’ve tried this, we’d love to hear your experiences.

Have your own way of clearing some mental space? Please share too!

Add comment December 20th, 2008