The Power of Sacred Spaces: A lesson from Octavia E. Butler
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Before she was a renowned science fiction author, Octavia E. Butler hustled through various jobs to make ends meet. She jumped from temp agencies to dishwashing, to whatever came next in order to pay the bills.
While daily life wasn’t easy at all, she had one place she would escape to that made it all better: The Public Library.
Butler found an escape in the books and stories she stumbled across. Most of the time she had no agenda or plan before choosing what to read. She would just wonder around and give herself space to explore anything she found interesting that day.
All of this information eventually became inspiration for her best-selling books.
Prioritizing Sacred Spaces
As creators living in the most distracted time in history, we can learn an important lesson from Butler:Â Even when life was crazy, she carved out a ritual to foster her creativity.
The library gave her distance from the everyday struggles, which was the key to unlocking the big-picture goals of her life.
What if you took a page from Butler's playbook? What if you gave yourself a sacred space to nurture your own creative projects, even in the noise and distractions that surround you?