I'm just curious. What kind of space do you need for different tasks, or types of things that you do, on a weekly or daily basis? I'm talking about stuff that you do mostly by yourself. When I moved here I tried to adapt to the culture here. Makes sense right? Well there were some routines that I had established in Greenville, that I let go when I came here, because I thought I was supposed to spend my personal ministry time in the office. What that ended up doing was hurting my leadership and my ministry. Now, I've learned a lot about both since being here. I just wish that this time I wouldn't have listen to the voices in my head. So I've redone where I spend my time. For "deep" thinking tasks, or creative things, brainstorming, prioritizing, I go to Penera Bread, or a deli or coffee shop. [A new coffee shop came to town recently and I'm excited about it. Except, I'm a booth guy and they have tables.] Administrative things I do in my office: organizing, updating the website, meetings with other staff, writing letters to parents, etc. I've been beating myself up because I was trying to do some of those creative things at this desk and I end up being interrupted, distracted or starring out the window wishing I was somewhere else. Somewhere I could think.

So where do you work?

Just found this on Doug Pagitt's blog. I listened to the interview with him and read the blog post about the interview... very interesting. Emergent is an even hotter topic than I thought.