Everybody has their own way to creating some headspace.
Some people meditate or exercise or walk on the beach.
For me, when my mind is so full of ‘stuff’ that nothing’s getting done, I shovel sh*t. There is nothing more grounding than mucking out stables!
I’m lucky because I work from home, I’m my own boss and not half a mile away from where I live is an inexhaustible supply of horse manure that needs shoveling on a very regular basis. So, when I get stuck, all I have to do is put on my boots and head for the wheelbarrow.
Half an hour of shoveling is guaranteed to have unknotted all my conumdrums and freed up my thinking.
Hanging around horses (and the stuff they excrete) doesn’t boost my brainpower or fire my imagination. In fact, it does exactly the opposite. The simple but essential task of cleaning stables and being around horses causes my mind to totally switch off.
I am there, doing a job that needs to be done and that is all there is to it.
Because I am 100% present and 100% focused on what I am doing my subconscious mind to gets on with sorting out whatever complex challenges my conscious mind could not solve – and everybody’s happy! 
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