Letting Go To Make Room For More: In Your Schedule

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Let’s talk about decluttering your time. Your daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, seasonal schedule.

You want to make room for new adventures, for new intentions, for new experiences to grow as a person, to live your purpose, to do good in the world, to improve your relationships, to grow spiritually. So you want to create the space for that and for that you need to let go of certain things that don’t serve anymore, that have served their purpose or just taking up too much room in your life. And you may want to make room for new things to come in.

And so the underlying principle is live with intention.

And the big question is ask yourself, what experiences do I want to bring into my life? What experiences do I want to bring into my life and how do I want to schedule them throughout my day or my week or throughout the seasons so that I can create the life I want to live in. So I can create and make reality the dreams that I have, the goals that I have.

And you know that there are things that you need to do daily, things you can do quarterly or you can do by season, but the minute you start to organize your time, suddenly you realize that you have so much time because not everything has to occur in the same 24 hours. Some things can happen once a week. Some things can happen for 15 minutes every day. Some things depend on the season or an a certain person being around or a certain activity that happens once a year. So you have so much time. You have 24 hours every day and we all have the same 24 hours. But we have an entire year to schedule the experiences and the life that we want to live.

So I want to share with you three steps of how you can create an intention around your time and your scheduling.

The first step, ask yourself, in what areas of my life do I want to live with more intention?

So you might want to grow in your business or you might want to invest in a specific relationship more, but self care and health are doing really well. Maybe you want to live with intention in everything and you feel that you need to do everything, but sometimes it’s helpful to just do one area at a time. There’s a saying that I heard once, you can have it all but not at the same time.

So you might even want to decide that you’re going to create an intention for a certain area of your life and schedule time for it per month. Picking an area of your life each month and decluttering something, letting go of something and creating an intention. Or you could do that by the season. So that’s the first step.

Second step. When you’re thinking of scheduling your time, think in terms of the qualities you want to express and have surround you and imbue your life and your schedule with as well as the results that you want to have and to gain instead of just the activity.

For example, I love going, especially in the winter when it’s col, I love the experience of going for walks. I love the experience afterwards also. And also why not while I’m in the cold air, but I cannot get myself to go out and walk. So I need to be really motivated for that. Well, the motivation is how I feel afterwards and the motivation is the pleasure and the freedom that I feel when I’m walking.

So aim for the quality, the spiritual quality, the emotional result that you will have, how it will affect your life instead of just the activity that will give you much more motivation.

The third step, and that’s a big one. Schedule things you love doing as well as the things that you need to do.

What happens is often we created to do list of everything we have to do, we need to do, and we don’t create a schedule for things we enjoy doing or things we’re doing anyway.

So let’s say you spend two hours on social media, maybe you’re on YouTube, on Facebook. Now it might seem absurd to schedule it, but what’s happening is that it’s in your schedule anyway. So instead honor it, put two hours on your daily schedule for social media or for being on the internet. Suddenly you’re not doing something that you always feel bad that you’re doing. You’re actually giving it time and honoring it.

Now two things are going to happen. Either you will say, “Oh, I’ve got two hours to do what I love doing,” and you’ll give yourself that time and then you will be done. Or you’ll say, “Two hours and social media, I don’t want to do that.” And you’ll take it down to 15 minutes or whatever, but give it time.

So put in your schedule, everything that you enjoy doing. What Marie Kondo would say, what sparks joy?

So for example, I’ve decided that I’m going to listen to a book for half an hour a day. I’m really a slow reader, but I really want to read. There’s so many wonderful books out there, both fiction and nonfiction. So I listen to books, so I’ve scheduled half an hour a day that I do that. I can do that while I’m driving in the car. I can do that while I’m waiting at the doctor’s appointment. I can do it when I get into bed in the evening. I can do it in between a task or two tasks that I enjoy to do less, but I’m scheduling it because this is something fun that I want to do.

So schedule what you love doing as well into your schedule.

So to summarize, three steps.

Step number one, what areas of my life do I want to bring more intention? And again, you don’t need to schedule your entire life now at the beginning of the year. You could do it per month, a different area per month or per season.

Step number two, scheduled with a quality you want to bring into your life and you want to experience or the results you want to enjoy instead of just the activity. So you’re thinking about the emotional or the spiritual aspect of the activity versus just the physical material expression of it. That’s where the expansiveness and you feel more uplifted is if you focus on the quality you want to experience or the result you want to enjoy.

And finally, step number three, schedule the things you love doing as well as the things that you need to or have to do. Put time for everything that you love doing. You can create it in between tasks that you enjoy less so that you need to do or create a special sacred time during the day where you do fun things that you like to do and what it will create is a balance in your life, you will have scheduled a to do list that is fun and not just the have tos. And if it’s things like ours and on social media or on the internet, you’ll either give it the time that you’re spending on it anyway, but you’ll be doing it with intention or it will allow you to say, this is way too much, let me take this down. I can even do it half an hour throughout my day after I do certain tasks that I enjoy less.

So enjoy creating your time. Don’t try to do everything at the same time. You don’t have to schedule your entire life now you can do it by week, by month, by season. You can do it by project.

Have fun with it. Do it with ease.

Blessings.