DO WHAT YOU CAN WITH WHAT YOU HAVE

There’s a dangerous belief that comes with success:

Because you’ve done more, you should always be able to do more.

I run multiple businesses. I lead teams. I coach. I train. I’m a husband. I’m a father. I’m constantly building something.

And one of the hardest things I’ve had to learn is that my capacity today is not always going to look like my capacity yesterday.

Some days I have twelve hours to attack the work.

Some days I have two.

Some mornings I feel unstoppable. Other mornings I’m already behind before the day even starts.

The mistake is comparing today’s circumstances to yesterday’s capacity.

That gap will destroy you if you let it.

You start thinking:

I should be further ahead.

I should have gotten more done.

I should be able to handle this.

I used to be able to do all of this.

But none of those thoughts move the ball forward.

Here’s what does:

What can I do, with what I have, today?

That question has become increasingly important to me as my life has gotten bigger.

Because high performance isn’t about operating at 100% capacity every single day.

It’s about getting 100% out of the capacity you have available that day.

If today gives you 60%, use all 60%.

If you have 30 minutes, own those 30 minutes.

If you can make one important call, make the call.

If you can get one workout in, train.

If you can move one project forward, move it.

If you can give your family two uninterrupted hours, put the fucking phone away and be there.

Stop negotiating with the resources you wish you had. Execute with the resources you actually have.

This doesn’t mean lowering your standards.

It means becoming incredibly good at adapting while keeping the standard intact.

The destination doesn’t change.

The mission doesn’t change.

The person you’re trying to become doesn’t change.

The route can.

I’ve spent a lot of my life believing high performance meant doing more.

I’m realizing more and more that sometimes high performance is knowing exactly what matters today and refusing to waste the capacity you have wishing you had more.

So when life feels heavy, the calendar is packed, the businesses need you, your family needs you, and you still have goals staring you in the face, simplify the equation:

What can I do?

What do I have?

What matters most?

Then execute.

Tomorrow you’ll get another set of circumstances.

Deal with those tomorrow.

But today?

Do what you can.

With what you have.

Where you are.

Today.

Dictate the Pace.

From the Founder, Brian Mazza 9/18