Create a personal space: five easy steps

Creating personal space is an important aspect of living a balanced life. It’s important to take time out of your busy, hectic, and stressful life to slow down and prioritize your emotional needs. By creating a space for yourself, you are showing that you think you are worth prioritizing. It looks different for everyone, but the universal aspect is that it’s an emotional reconnection with yourself. It is very easy to forget to prioritize your needs when balancing all your responsibilities. Without stopping to reconnect with yourself, you become the battery bunny on autopilot. That’s no way to live! Take a few minutes and follow these steps to incorporate personal space into your life today.

1. Admit that you deserve personal space, and make a personal commitment to incorporating it into your life on a regular basis.
2. Identify the aspects of your ideal personal space and be specific. It is important to create a visual image of what it looks like. Are you alone or with others? Who specifically do you like to recharge with? Where are you going to recharge? How much time do you want and need to recharge? What supplies do you need to make it happen? What helps you recharge emotionally? What activities do you enjoy while recharging your batteries? Here are some examples to get you thinking: taking a walk in the woods, reading your favorite childhood book, playing badminton with a friend, relaxing on the beach, baking a favorite recipe while listening to your favorite CD, taking a bubble bath . Have fun being creative with your activities!
3. Schedule it in your planner. Intentions are wonderful, but without action, they are just words. Sit down with your planner at the start of each week and schedule in a personal space for yourself. Unless it’s scheduled, it won’t happen.
4. Identify resources that will help you make your personal time a priority. Who can you ask for support and accountability to stick with your plan? What friend could pick up their kids from soccer practice one day to free up their schedule for relaxation time?
5. Reflect on your personal space. How you feel? What clarity have you gained by spending time reconnecting with yourself? Did you have enough time? If not, how can you make more time in your schedule to have more personal space?

Creating personal space is the most important thing you can do for yourself because without it, the rest of your life suffers. You deserve to recharge your batteries. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

Do you want to create the life you want and deserve, but don’t know how to start?