What If You Can't Have It All?

Is that really such a bad thing? And how do you pick and choose what to give up in order to make room for the next best stuff coming your way? An exercise in finding out.

In the Live & Thrive pilot workshop, we’re at the stage where we look at what we want within the context of what we have to sacrifice to bring it into our lives.

Betty Friedan said, You can have it all, just not all at the same time. And that just makes acres of sense to me. It’s such a huge relief. Like, I can actually get some sleep and not resent the waste of time, knowing there’s a season for each thing I want to do.

Some things just conflict with each other, and I wish I’d understood this earlier. Some things simply cannot exist at the same time or in the same human. You can’t kick dogs and call yourself a dog lover. You can’t hate cats and be a cat person. And you can’t manifest anything without doing the work, making the effort, and making room for it in your life.

So, this week’s homework is pretty intense. Sacrifice doesn’t feel like fun. Everyone in this workshop has to face difficult decisions about what to sacrifice in order to have room in our lives for what we want next. It’s a peek into the ways that making our wants real could potentially change each one of us.