“I want to do it all…”

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Shared by Breanne Smedley

It’s about this time of the year that my schedule opens up a bit and the fight for my time becomes intense.

All of a sudden after the volleyball season is over, I have 3-6 hours a day and most weekends back open.

How do I fill it?

I have found that when it comes to time if we don’t tell it how to be spent, it will get filled for us.

Getting hung up on whatever pops up during the day.
Putting out fires.
Wasting time on social media, email, and meetings that we think are “productive.”

Then, we start saying the worst excuse when we want to actually do something.

“I don’t have time.”

We all have the same amount of time. It’s just how we spend it that matters.

For me, I quickly realized that I had high hopes with how I’d fill this time.

I want to reconnect with my family.
I’ve missed doing the daily things with them.

I want to go back to CrossFit.
I’ve missed the community and lifting heavy.

I want to ride the Peloton we bought.
I love how motivating it is!

I want to continue to do GRIT with my StoryAthlete community.
This physical program has developed a mindset of grit within me and has allowed me to work out for 66 days in a row.

I want to meal plan and cook healthy meals at home.

I want to build Mindfluent® Leadership, get back into reading, writing IODs, and finish my book.

I want to take on more clients and teams as a mental training coach.

I want time for self-care.

I want to do it all…

And it’s hard to prioritize when I feel like every one of those things on the list is important to me.

Every one of those things I want to fit in, somehow.

But, how?

They say you can kill two birds with one stone.

Well, I have eight birds.

And two stones.

Can I get my family to do GRIT with me, then leverage that into my business?

Four birds, one stone.

Can I add something to my morning routine?

Can I take away something that isn’t serving me anymore elsewhere?

Everything is figureoutable.

And as Kristina reminded me last week,

I probably CAN do it all.

But maybe “all” needs to have a new definition.

Of what’s important to me in this current season of life.

I want to do it all, eventually.

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