A Calendar Filled With Purpose

I believed this article to be quite refreshing and wanted to share it with my SISTAHS.  As busy as some of us have become, sometime we need to stop and learn how to create "white space".  When you become too busy sometime it creates resent and you loss the joy of fulfilling your purpose, and you've lost your powerful creativeness needed to keep moving.

Learn to create white space so that you don't have a zoo of text on the calendar page.

The world won't stop turning. 

Here are three easy steps to creating white space in your life:

1. Take yourself seriously.

2. Pack your courage.

3. Start small.

4. Take Yourself Seriously. If white space is calling you, take that call seriously. Something important wants to be born, to heal, or to rest, and needs white space to do that. White space will, without a doubt, give you a precious gift. Don’t miss it.

5. Pack your courage. In our culture, busyness is celebrated. We draw a subtle sense of security and worth from it. Many workplaces celebrate martyrs who sacrifice themselves to busyness, instead of recognizing those that produce great results without overwhelm and long work days. Recognize that these cultural forces are alive in your life. Creating white space requires leaving the herd. You’ll need courage to do it.

There is another reason that you’ll need courage. Especially at first, white space feels uncomfortable. White space isn’t really white, because all the colors that are in you quickly fill the space. White space is the container for you to discover, spend time with, and paint with those colors. Feeling resistant and scared to being with what might come up is normal. This is a habit that takes some practice to get used to. Be in it for the long run with yourself, and sit through the discomfort that will show up at first.

6. Small is big. Small changes — what we do with 10 minutes, 5 minutes, 15 seconds — have a huge impact. If scheduling an hour of white space strikes you as a hilarious joke or physical impossibility, begin with:

• Five minutes for pure white space time every morning or every evening. Check in with what is happening with yourself at that moment.
• Between appointments, instead of a quick email check, dedicate 2-5 minutes for white space. Connect with your body, your breath, or a part of nature. That desk plant counts! If you have an iphone, try Dream, a free application that provides sounds of rain, ocean, and rushing wind. This will help you click into a white space frame of mind.
• Find low-quality time–transit time, time spent drying your hair or folding the laundry, and bring a white space intention to it. Slow down and reconnect to yourself.

Excerpt from Tara Sophia Mohr, http://wiselivingblog.com/2009/09/white-space/