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your family, you cannot enter that space unless they with work. Until one of my mentors told me, “Are you
invite you in. However, the idea of personal space is leaving space for your growth?”.
malleable. We have the choice to change the definition. I asked, “What do you mean by that question? I am
4. All about Leaving Space doing everything for my growth”.

Space influences our lives in multiple ways. When “I know and appreciate it. But are you taking time
we feel there is a lack of space in our life, we feel out to reflect on what you are doing and where it is
suffocated. When we leave space for others to grow, leading? Keeping yourself busy with action may not
they also help us grow. This is especially true in the lead you in the right direction. Leave some space for
work environment. When I got promoted to Assistant reflection. Warren Buffett leaves a space between
Manager, I was a control freak. I left no space for my two appointments because he believes that leaving
team to breathe until my boss called me and said, blank space gives him time to think and reflect. You
“Meenakshi, you need to trust your team and give know Music Happens between empty spaces”.
them space to handle issues on their own. They will Over the years, my opinion about space has
produce results that will help you grow” It took time changed, in some areas gradually and in certain
for me to implement this idea. Once implemented, it places drastically. Reflecting on it, I agree with my
helped me grow as a person.
grandfather. Everything in this world emanates from
On a funny note, not leaving a space made our HR what we hold in our head and how we feel about it.
furious. One of my colleagues sent a sick leave The information that passes through the space in
request to HR. His reason for sick leave: Mysore our head decides our life. It can put a person on a
throat. (Mysore is a place in South India). pedestal or push him down to the ground. Every
HR called “Are you joking. There is nothing like Mysore change in the information available in that space
throat” My colleague explained “It is my sore throat. I changes our behaviour.
missed a space in between”
The Space celebrated as a temple of freedom now
Leaving space in between can change the meaning of could have been a place of ultimate aggression at
the sentence. a different time. It all boils down to one thing. What
In certain situations, leaving a space in between can people hold in that space in their head and how they
add meaning to life. feel about it.
Your life, my life and the future of life on earth itself
I have always believed in the proverb “Empty mind is
the devil’s workshop”. So, I always kept myself busy depend on what we hold in that space inside our
head.

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