You Don’t Find It. You Make It.

As I write this, I’m packing for Ibiza.

It’s not a holiday. It’s one day (well, three if we include travel) Moxie Reset — a single day carved out of a regular week, away from the desk and the to-do list and the seventeen browser tabs I’ve had open since February. I agreed to the trip because something in me said yes, this before my calendar could say but have you seen Thursday?

“I just need to find the time.” Does this sound familiar?

You won’t.

It doesn’t exist yet.

Because you don’t find it. You make it.

We scan our calendars looking for a gap that isn’t there. We wait for a slower week that never quite arrives. We treat creative thinking like leftovers — the thing we’ll get to after everyone else has been fed. We keep telling ourselves that when things calm down, we’ll have the headspace to think big, to plan properly, to sit with the idea that’s been tugging at our sleeve for months.

Things don’t calm down. We already know this.

There is a difference, and it matters more than I can tell you, between taking time and making time.

Taking time means borrowing it from somewhere else. Squeezing a strategy session into a lunch break that’s also a sandwich, also a scroll, also three voice notes you forgot to send. Taking time is reactive. It’s you fitting yourself into the margins of your own business.

Making time is a declaration of independence. It’s you saying: this exists because I said so. It’s a day, or even just five minutes, blocked in the calendar before anything else gets near it. It’s an out-of-office on and — if you’re brave — a laptop left at the hotel (this actually gives me the heebie jeebies). It’s the conscious, deliberate choice to treat your creative thinking as the job, not the reward for finishing the job.

So. Before you plan this week:

Look at your calendar.

Find the thing you keep putting off because you “need more headspace” for it.

Now make the headspace.

Block the morning. Book the day. Say no to the meeting that could have been an email. Turn off the notifications and actually show up for the space you just made.

You are not a machine that runs on inputs and outputs. You are the creative force behind the machine. That part of you needs room to breathe — not as a luxury, not as a reward — as a non-negotiable part of running a business that doesn’t hollow you out.

Make the time before someone else fills it.

You can find some of the Ibiza highlights over on Instagram at @iamtriciascott and @the_female_ceo and I’ll be back next week in The Female CEO Magazine to tell you all about it.

I believe in you (always).

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 Tricia Scott is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Female CEO — a global platform, magazine, and community dedicated to helping women build confident, aligned, powerful businesses.

A startup mentor and multi-company director, she’s spent the past decade helping women move from overwhelmed and isolated to empowered and intentional.

Most days, she’s juggling her MacBook, her next big idea, and a very necessary caffeine supply. Connect with her at thefemaleceo.com.