As we travel along our path, we participate in the creative process. We have thoughts, ideas, dreams, and feelings. All could be considered roots of the creative process. As these creative roots fill our consciousness, space is consumed. As we go about our daily lives, we accumulate things like grudges, reactions, attachments, regrets. It is true that we also accumulate hopes, desires, and wants. We accumulate, accumulate, and accumulate. As we grow, change and evolve, we must take time to review what we have gathered: sort it all out, modify, and purge.We must take inventory of the accumulation.

In another blog, I will talk about the inventory process in detail, but for this entry I want to focus on the outcome of the inventory process: space. We know that we accumulate, we know (or at least now we are aware) we need to inventory, but what is the value of space?

Using a cluttered room as an example, it’s pretty straight forward that if the room were clear of clutter we can move about easier. Potentially, we can find what we are looking for more easily. We recognize that we have duplicate inventory items that just take up space. We find things that are outdated and no longer serving our greater good. If we clean up the accumulation there will be additional space. With this space we can now do something different. What if the cluttered room becomes an artist studio, an office, or an entertainment room? It is transformed, and in this transformed space new activity occurs. We paint, draw, read, or socialize: giving rise to the potential to other outcomes like a book, the beginning of a new business, or the chance to meet someone new.

Space, as with many things in our life, contracts and expands. Our job is to be conscious of the space around us. Managing the space and being a steward of our path implies we take time to review, remediate, and transform what we accumulate - creating a space for opportunities to manifest. Space implies opportunity!

How do you manage your space? Do you have examples of change and transformation that came about through the process of inventorying and transforming your accumulations?