There’s something about being on a plane…

Published 30 days ago • 1 min read

A spacious view from my flight on Saturday.

This week I spent a few hours on an airplane. And maybe it’s just me, but I enjoy flying.

Not because I enjoy being squeezed into a tiny seat. (I definitely don’t.) Or racing through an airport to make a tight connection when there are delays. (Why do you think I wear sneakers when I fly?)

But because once that cabin door closes, something shifts.

For a little while, the world can’t quite get to me.

Sure, there might be Wi-Fi and messages can still come through. But somehow it feels different. There’s no expectation that I’ll reply immediately or get one more thing done.

Most flights, you’ll find me looking out the window, watching the clouds drift by. The sky feels impossibly spacious.

And somewhere up there, I usually start to feel a little more spacious too.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we create more of that kind of space in our everyday lives.

How do we slow down in a world that seems to keep speeding up?

Maybe part of it is creating more moments where we don’t feel instantly available to everyone. Where there’s enough space to hear our own thoughts. Enough quiet to simply be.

Wishing you a little bit of that feeling this week…even if your feet stay firmly on the ground.

Sending love and spacious vibes,

Chris

PS: If you’re craving a little more of that spacious feeling in your everyday life, that’s exactly what we’ll be exploring in The Rest Experiment. We start September 15.

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