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Making Space 2025: Day 2

Christine Hennebury
a small drawing of the number 2

Sure, this 2 is a little wonky but it's grand that way. Same could be said for many of us, hey? ;)

Hey everyone!

Here we are at Day 2 and I already have a favour to ask you.

In the midst of your plan to make a bit more space for yourself this season, I’m wondering if you would consider scheduling two small things that are important to you in the weeks ahead.

This doesn’t have to be anything fancy – it could be reading a book or doing a puzzle or calling friend to catch up or dancing to specific song, or walking to look at lights or trees or the river.

It really doesn’t matter what the two small things are. What matters is that consider those things to be just as important as anything else you plan to do in the next few weeks.

Treat those plans like an appointment with a doctor or a meeting with a client – something that is pretty firmly scheduled but if something goes awry it will be rescheduled, not cancelled.

This is another way to create some space for yourself in December.

Because if you are like me, things that are just of interest to me tend to get shuffled aside for “when I get everything else done.”*

It’s never my plan to neglect my own fun but sometimes it just seems easier to put it aside for later.

So, my two definite plans for myself are: to go to the Santa Claus parade in my city on Saturday and to do a puzzle on the afternoon of the 21st.

If you’d like to tell me your plans in the comments, I’d love to read them!

So, with that said, here are two ways you can make a little space for yourself in your mind, your body, and your life today.

Wishing you ease, as always!

I chose some HIIT cardio for today’s movement practice but the instructor offers some modified movements if this is a bit much for you today. Remember, as always, that you are free to choose something else to do or to just do a small section. You are the boss of you!

This video is called”10 Minute Intense Cardio Party HIIT to the Beat” and it’s from the Fit by Mik channel. The still image shows the instructor in exercise clothes (blue leggings and a sports bra) with their hair in a ponytail doing an exercise where they are bringing their left elbow and right knee together. Their smile and the way their ponytail is flying out to the side gives a energetic feeling to the image. The title of the video is on the left side of the screen.

And here’s our mindfulness practice for today:

This video is “5 Minute Guided Meditation Quick Reset” from Meditate with Antonella and the still image is of several items on a brown table. Only two of the items can be clearly seen because the title text is covering part of the screen. The scene is dimly lit, there is a plant in a brown shallow dish in the upper right and in the center is a lit, light yellow, pillar candle in the same kind of round, brown, shallow dish.

*Yeah, there is no such time as “everything is done” – there is always more that “could” be done. We all end up just making decisions about when we are going to have to stop or when we have done “enough” so we might as well fit our own stuff in there now instead of hoping time will materialize at the end of our tasks.

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