We all know people who do more than everyone else.
They do the family things and the home things.
They do the friends things, the travel things, the work things, and the wild things.
And miraculously, they seem to be enjoying it all.
Like cyborgs. Or Stepford Wives.
They are creating things that interest them.
They are volunteering for causes they care about.
They are having success in their career, running their own business or leading their family.
They do the networking activities you would like to do.
They exercise.
And they get to worship, too, God bless them.
Plus, they coach or chaperone or team parent for the activities their kids do.
You wonder How do they do it all?
How are they involved in so many things? How do they fit it all in? And how do they not Chernobyl like it’s 1986?
The answer is simple.
Capacity is a state of mind.
You decide how much you can handle, how much you can take on, how much you can fit in.
You decide how much you can do with your hours, days and weeks.
When you decide you are full and overwhelmed, you stop. (Presumably in the name of love.)
People who do more believe they have a capacity to do more.
They see spaces to add things.
They find time in their schedule to make things happen.
They see opportunities that are worth their time and their energy.
And they recognize that at some point, they will run out of time, energy and opportunity.
So they go now.
The scarcity of time is precisely what drives them to see more capacity in their everyday.
Now is the time.
Now is the opportunity.
Now is the alternative to never.
Key Takeaway
If you want to fill your life with meaning, action and contribution, adjust your mindset to create capacity. Because when you want to find the time for more, you will find it. Or you will optimize, prioritize, reduce or eliminate things to make room. There is more space and time in your continuum for the things you really want to do. Find it. Enjoy it. Do more with it. And make others wonder how you do it all.
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