Aug 25, 2026
Have you ever finally created some much-needed space in your
business… only to immediately fill it right back up?
Someone leaves your team, and you start looking for their
replacement. An offer runs its course, and you start figuring out
what you’ll sell next. You delegate something that gives you back
10 hours each week, and somehow those hours quickly get reallocated
to something else...
Sound familiar? As business owners, we’re naturally great at
solving problems and moving things forward, so when something opens
up, our instinct is usually to figure out what belongs there
next.
But what opens up if you don't rush to fill that space?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot since getting back from a trip
Mallorca, where I intentionally gave myself far more open,
uncommitted space than I normally do.
What emerged from that experience reminded me how much can become
visible when we give ourselves enough capacity for something we
couldn’t have planned for. In this week’s episode of Scale
Differently, I explore:
We spend a lot of time making sure we have capacity for the
unexpected problems that inevitably happen in
business.
But what about leaving capacity for the unexpected magic?
You can’t receive something new into a space that’s already
full.
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