On making space for magic

My friend Amanda taught me something perspective-shifting, (and she probably doesn't know this). You see, I was working in a coffee shop and we bumped into each other, and when I asked what she was doing, she said she was simply reading for pleasure. She's one of those absolute badass women, the kind who runs two businesses and does it stylishly, so I was taken aback that she wasn't running into a meeting or heads-down on a project. Then she told me something profound that I've been marinating on ever since:

You have to make space in your life for something incredible to happen.

The ironic part was that I couldn't chat much about making space in our lives because I was running to my next meeting. She was right.

We schedule our lives to the minute, meetings, lunches, events, side hustles. We say yes to the requests landing in our inboxes, and then muscle the coffee into our calendar even when it's wailing for relief. Days like that feel suffocated, but we don't learn. We commute home, our brains fuzzy from overuse, our energy completely spent. Our lives are over-scheduled, over-productive, and sometimes just damn exhausting.

The problem is, that's not how creativity thrives. The muse whispers in quiet moments. If we're not present and listening, we'll miss her calling. She'll drown in the noise of our busy lives.

We need to make space in our lives for chance encounters, creative projects, good ideas, and new friends. We need to give magic some buffer time, so it can manifest in our lives. Saying no to something is always saying yes to something (often better). This week let's practice making space in our lives, so we can be open to something incredible.