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Creating Space

by bhealthy on September 15, 2011

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I rush to Thursday. By Thursday, I’m mentally, physically and spiritually ready for the weekend break! It feels like I’m on a set of monkey bars- grabbing each bar, one, two, three, four…and then it is Thursday. I jump off.

Weekends never meant as much as they do to me now. It is my time to shutdown, reboot, and prepare to jump back on the playground of life. Prepare to climb the ladder (..to success), pump my legs on the swings, tackle the jungle gym with “friends”, deal with bullies…!  The working world of adulthood is really just all too similar to the childhood playground situations we have faced at one point in our lives. The same issues, maybe they just look a little different to us now.

The universe has this way of presenting the same lesson to us over and over agin until we figure it out and find what is right for us. A friend mentioned this to me awhile ago but it has stuck in my head ever since. I feel like once again I am in overdrive or overload, whatever you want to call it. This is how I have been since starting the blog- I’ve had to balance writing, living, managing, working, running, blogging, and seeking. Opportunities don’t always just fall into your lap. You need to have your eyes wide open to see them and to seek them into fruition.

I feel like this time around, I am much more eager to seek opportunities and follow them through fruition as opposed to just being constantly busy. I am purposefully busy and I am enjoying it ( for now, for the most part).Sometimes I do feel like I go day to day not leaving the current moment before I have a firm grasp on the next step. I know that I need to spend more time just creating space for myself.

I guess today’s post is more of a reflection for me, a moment where I stopped to create space and reflect. A little more time to sit in the uncomfortable, where we all hate to be, and just be.

Have you had the same “lessons” presented to you multiple times?

How do you create space for yourself ?

Thanks for reading!

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  • Anonymous

    Im glad to hear youre taking reboot time on the weekends-so important. Isnt it scary how some people never grow up and remain bullies? My lesson relearned is the importance of exercise. Fitting it in makes me a better mom

  • psun8

    Have you had the same “lessons” presented to you multiple times?
        Maybe not the same lessons, but definately the same situations…

    How do you create space for yourself ?
        At the end of the day, “creating space” for me is about creating time for the people I love and activities I enjoy. I have discovered saying “no” is the most efficient way to “create space”. When you’re moderately successful at everything you do, everyone wants you to do something, or go somewhere or participate in something or some some awesome opportunity for you… I spent a long time making other people happy by always saying “yes” and in the process, I made myself pretty darn miserable… overworked, overloaded with extracurriculars, stressed because I was unable to “create the space” to do the things I wanted to do… just my $.02

  • Anonymous

    great post! I was just thinking the other day how much I NEED weekends lately, my weeks have been so crazy. I try my best to create space for myself, and it definitely involves solo activities on the weekends as well as time with friends. I find that I need some time to myself in order to “right” myself from a crazy week.

  • http://www.modernmom.com/blogs/wendy-irene Wendy Irene

    Thank you for
    the link love! You are so sweet. I’m so glad we’ve become friends :) I LOVED
    this post! I absolutely have re-occurring life lessons. A big one for me being
    control. I absolutely agree that creating space and time to reboot is essential
    to live life to the fullest, and be present to appreciate it. I hope this
    coming weekend is very relaxing and peaceful for you :)

  • http://www.yummychunklet.wordpress.com Yummychunklet

    Awesome post.

  • Parsley Sage

    Nothing ever really changes.  I’m astounded by how childish grown ups act sometimes.  Especially in the office.  It’s like high school all over again.  I just have to remember that my life is separate from my work and that I work to LIVE.  That’s the whole reason we moved to Cayman…because life is too short to spend anytime being somewhere you don’t like/doing something you don’t love/ spending time with people who are mean to you.

  • Gina (Candid RD)

    Oh I think your friend is so right!  The universe definitely has its way of presenting the same situation to us over and over, until we learn to get it right.  For example, since I was young I have been trying to get better at being patient and listening.  Each day I get better at it, and while the patience thing is still something I’m working on, I’m so proud that I have the opportunity to practice getting better, everyday.  Patience IS a virtue!

  • http://ittybitsofbalance.com Brittany @ Ittybitsofbalance

    Creating space is a great thing to do sometimes. I forget how important it is to reflect on my own thoughts and situation sometimes when I get caught up in the daily events of my life.

    Great post

  • http://swankydietitian.com Kristen @ Swanky Dietitian

    What a great post.  I feel the same as you.  I think sometimes I just take on too much and forget how important it is for me to have time for me. Last weekend was great because I did just that. Shut down and spent time doing things for me.

  • http://www.andreaswellnessnotes.com Andrea@WellnessNotes

    I also recently read somewhere that we have to go through the same lessons again and again until we have learned what we are supposed to learn. I think that’s such an interesting way to look at it. And it probably also means that we will go through many of the same lessons forever…

    A little space just to be, without distractions, is so important. I’ve also been very busy lately, but it’s a good busy, and I make sure to make time to “check in with myself” frequently…