k Revival podcast.

My name is Vesna, and today

I wanna talk about the

value of space and how it's

the most strategic thing

that you could do today.

So let me ask you, how much.

Space or quiet time?

Do you give yourself each day

where you are not distracted,

you don't have a phone or a

device or anyone around you?

obviously not working or

completing a task, but really

quiet time to do nothing.

The reason why quiet time

is so important is because

it's contemplation time.

It's time to self-reflect.

time to check in

with yourself.

One of the biggest causes or

the biggest cause of stress,

exhaustion and burnout

is overthinking.

So it's a very busy mind.

So this idea of

creating quiet time.

It does a lot to reduce those

symptoms and rejuvenate us.

And in order for you to

value this, I need to

explain to you what we get

out of taking quiet time.

if I was to say to

you, you know what?

I want you to take 10 minutes

out of your day and just

be quiet and do nothing.

It's going to be a thing that

you tick off your to-do list.

Okay.

I've done my quiet time.

But you don't see the value

behind it, and that's where

it's important because

there's a reason why the great

thinkers of the world and

billionaires today still use

this routine in order to get

the best out of themselves.

reason why this is so

important is because of the

way that our mind works, okay?

Our mind helps to come up

with ideas and solve problems.

It's very creative, but

it comes up with this

stuff in the gaps, right?

It's not coming up with it.

When we've got a full mind,

we are heavy, deep in a task

or we are multitasking, right?

And we are very busy.

It's not gonna come up

with it at that time.

We need to create a gap.

But today we don't

create gaps, right?

When we have a gap, we pick up

the phone, we look at social

media, we do something right?

And so unfortunately, we're

not creating that space for

the good stuff to arise.

And so in order to make

this shift, you need to see

the value of a mental gap.

So the first way that taking

this quiet time out, the

first way that it, Helps us is

number one, it provides mental

and emotional rejuvenation.

So I have an activity

in my program called the

Alpha 10, and the Alpha is

referring to the calming

alpha brainwave state.

I. And basically it's

where you do nothing.

Okay?

And so I, I take people

through this process

and it's really simple.

So if you find meditation

a struggle, this

you will find easy.

And the benefits are

huge because taking just

10 minutes out of your

day allows your mind to.

Uncoil from all of that

crazy overthinking to-do

list stresses, worries,

concerns, future stuff, right?

It allows a mind to uncoil

and it processes emotions.

It rejuvenates us, right?

And without this space,

it doesn't matter how

many supplements you take

for anxiety, for your

brain, for your focus, if.

You don't take this time.

The supplements are not

gonna help you, right?

It's just there's a massive

backlog there that needs

to be processed, and taking

that quiet time helps

all of that to unwind.

I've had cases where women

who have had adrenal fatigue

for like 10 years and

nothing has helped them.

And by understanding how

the mind works and taking

them through this process,

they were able to suddenly

recover from their symptoms

and from their condition

from one week to the next.

Right?

And the body, when we release

a lot of that stress and

anxiety, the body recovers

really, really fast, right?

Because we know that the

stress response stops

the healing response.

Okay?

And so.

The power of this is

not to be understated.

Secondly, we get access to

fresh ideas and insights.

Now, this is the lifeblood

of a business or anyone in

a leadership position, so

think of it like this way the.

Fresh ideas and insights

help us to come up with

new ideas, new products.

It helps us to solve problems

and challenges very quickly.

So it's very, very

important if you're running

your own business or

you're managing a team.

I read recently that

Christopher Nolan, which

is I think one of the best

filmmakers now, who did

Inception and Oppenheimer

amongst many, he has no

phone and he has no email.

Okay?

So you can't contact him,

and he says this is required

in order for him to do his

deep thinking and his deep.

Focus and his deep work

time without distractions.

And in fact, bill Gates

does a think week, right?

Where he takes himself

away for one week, no

distractions, no one there.

And he has deep

solitude and reflection.

That's a billionaire.

Okay?

And then people throughout

our history, people like

Leonardo da Vinci, Martin

Luther King Nietzsche, Jesus

Christ, Nicola Tesla, Ernest

Hemingway, to name a few.

Respected this time

in deep solitude and

contemplation as an important

part of their process.

So the problem is we get bored

and actually there's a lot of

goodness in boredom, right?

This is where we create

the gap in our mind and

we can come up with new

ideas and problem solve.

Number three, creating space

and quiet time contributes

to emotional bandwidth.

So when there is no space

in your mind, you have

no emotional bandwidth.

So this is where you

lose your temper quickly.

You get stressed really

quickly and it looks like

it's coming from those

around you, but it's

really because you don't

have the tolerance, right?

And you end up seeing.

Things in a negative way,

like you have a very negative

outlook when you don't

have emotional bandwidth.

So as a leader or as a

business owner, you can't

get caught up in your

emotions if you don't

have emotional bandwidth.

You are gonna have

your emotions hijacking

your day and disrupting

everything that you can do.

And even as a woman who's

juggling work and family,

coming home with no bandwidth

means you're going to snap

at your kids or not have time

for them or their questions.

Right?

So really, really important.

And number four, a really

important one is that

without that time, you lose

connection to yourself, okay?

So you don't get a true

sense of yourself or a

true connection to yourself

until you do nothing,

until you spend time on

your own doing nothing.

I'm not talking about you

don't have to do a Bill Gates

where you spend a week, right?

It's 10 minutes a day,

Wherever you can find that.

But if you can see

the value in that.

Then you will do it right?

We don't have to, I don't

have to convince you to do it.

Right.

But you have to see

the value in that.

So I remember years

ago, I went up into

the Andes Mountains in

Chile on horseback with

a shaman, which is a

story for another time.

But I spent about four

days up in that mountain.

There was absolutely nothing.

We had to pitch a tent.

There was nothing there, and

it was probably one of the

best moments in my adult life.

So I found on the.

First day, my mind was

starting to slow down.

By the second, third day,

my thinking had completely

changed, particularly

my inner talk, right?

My inner talk had

really changed.

I'd really softened

towards myself.

I was really relaxed.

I can't remember a time that

I've ever been that relaxed,

and in fact, I remember I

would drink a cup of coffee.

In the morning and stare

at a mountain for about

two to three hours.

Right?

That sounds pretty crazy

to do, but it was so

easy to do and it was so

peaceful and so relaxing.

So, you know, that's obviously

an extreme version, but that

time is so important that we

reconnect with ourselves and

we're not taking that time.

We're just getting stuck

in our intellectual brain,

which is always bossing

us around, giving us.

Old thinking, old ideas,

old information, right?

So we really need to carve

out that space in order

to reinvent ourselves or

reinvent our business or

come up with something new.

So those are just four

benefits of carving

out some quiet time for

yourself every single day.

When I speak to women

that are really busy,

professional women, career

women executives, business

women, I can hear in their

schedule that they have

absolutely no time, right?

And if you control your

calendar, you control

your time, and I'm talking

about 10 minutes a day.

So those are the

four things that.

You will receive from taking

that 10 minutes out a day.

Right.

So I want you to leave me a

comment below and let me know,

can you see the value

in taking this time

out for yourself?

Can you see how

it would help you?

And let me know when

you would start.