How To Create Your Own Personal Space and Why You Need It
A few years ago I was a wife, mother to a teenager and business woman. My husband and I owned two successful businesses and I owned a belly dance business. I was running three businesses and I was constantly rushed and pushed and stressed. There was never enough time in the day to do “all the things!”
I ran from here to there just trying to keep up. A typical day would include me filling in for a sick wait staffer at our diner, running to the store when we ran out of tomatoes, paying the meat guy and the produce guy, answering the phone and emails, running our rock and gem store in the afternoons and teaching belly dance in the evenings. Fortunately we ate at the diner but I still had all the other household chores.
I worked seven days a week and usually 10–14 hours a day.
One day I looked at my life and thought, “This isn’t my life; I’m living someone else’s life!”
All I ever wanted to do was be a writer but my day was filled with demands. How did I become a business woman and what was I going to do to slow down and do something for myself?
I’m an introvert and I was constantly on demand and among people. I needed my own space and I needed it for my own sanity. Introverts need time alone to recharge but extroverts benefit fromt their own space…