Make Room

Creating the life you want.

We often have a laundry list of things we hope for in our lives and then all the grievances for them not manifesting. So, what is the gap that is holding us back? Perhaps examining what we’ve made room for in our lives will show us why these things we say we hope for are not actually manifesting?

What is making room? This is the act of making time and space for something. When I use the word “make”, I do not mean to miraculously create something out of nothing. As we all know, time and space are two of our most precious and finite resources. The act of making room is not one of making more time and space, but carving out the finite time and space we each have for those specific hopes we wish to manifest. This is also the part that makes it difficult.

Creating the life you want is not a passive process. If you want to live passively, whatever will be will be. But if you want to create the life you want, there needs to be active intention. The act of making time and space requires sacrifice. If you want peace in your life, do you have time and space set aside for the things that will bring you peace? What is in the way? If you want adventure in your life, do you have time and space set aside for adventure? What is in the way?

No matter what you do, your time and space will undoubtedly fill up, so you have to intentionally maneuver the things in your life to give time and space to what matters to you – which may require getting rid of some things entirely. You want to make room for peace, but you’ve been allowing a lot of chaos to take up space. How do you get rid of these things that bring chaos, so your peace has a place to take root in your life? You want to make room for adventure, but you’ve held onto fear in every part of your life? What needs to be let go, no matter how familiar, to make a place for adventure to live?

Creating the life you want is not a passive process. You may need to clear that guest bedroom to create the office you need. You may need to cancel the standing happy hour for playtime with the kids. You may need to trade a few things in and a few things out.

We can all list the things we hope for, but for how many of those things have we made room?