When You Don't Have The Time To Do It All

Life is more full than ever. Between personal responsibilities, work that’s demanding so much of us, taking care of ourselves, and having a personal life with hobbies and passion projects… The days fill up really quickly.

In fact it gets so full so fast that some of the most important things get pushed out. 

We’re so busy with our current workload that we can’t fully deliver on our growth strategy in our role or business... 

We try to fit a workout and healthy meals into the cracks between commitments, but then we don’t have the time or energy to actually make good on those intentions... 

Quality time with loved ones seems to be cut short, and we’re not as present as we’d like to be because our minds are racing on figuring other things out…

And it might seem like you’re set up for failure, that there’s not enough time in the day to do it all, and in many ways you’re right. But that’s based on the way your life is currently designed. When you have a more practical design and stronger boundaries to enforce that design, you’ll find that you can increase your overall capacity. It makes you more efficient and gives you a new plan for how to fit more into the constraints of a single day. 

If you’re interested to maximize your life balance and optimize your schedule…click here to check out the Ideal Daily Design workshop I created.

The other factor to consider, alongside efficiency, is effectiveness. It’s not just about doing more, but doing more of the most valuable things. In fact, effectiveness is more important than efficiency because it doesn’t do you much good to get really dialed in and streamlined on doing the wrong things.

I know it all feels important, which is what makes it so difficult… But some things are genuinely more impactful than others. There are things that point more directly toward your goals and contribute more forcefully to the progress you hope to make. The objective is to design your life such that you can consistently say “yes!” to those things.

I know you’ve heard this before, but you can’t make the excuse that “you don’t have the time for something”. Of course you have the time. It’s just that you’re putting that time into other things and don’t have leftover time.

You can’t change time but you can change the way you spend it. And getting really focused on what’s most important to you, and creating your Ideal Daily Design so that you allocate the appropriate time for it, is how you break out of being too busy for the things that are most important.

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