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What is your capacity?
One of the most important things I have learned as a mom is that not every season of life has the same capacity.
For years, I thought the answer was to work harder, stay up later, push through exhaustion, and keep adding more to my plate. What I eventually realized was that my stress wasn't always coming from what I was doing. It was coming from expecting myself to operate at a capacity I simply did not have in that season.
Capacity matters.
Some seasons you can homeschool, work, cook from scratch, volunteer, run a business, and still have energy left over.
Other seasons, getting everyone fed, loved, and through the day is a win.
Neither season makes you a good mom or a bad mom.
The problem happens when we refuse to acknowledge our capacity and continue saying yes to things that require more from us than we currently have available.
As moms, we need to learn how to ask ourselves:
What do I realistically have the mental, emotional, physical, and financial capacity for right now?
Not what I wish I could do.Not what social media says I should do.Not what someone else is doing.
What can I actually sustain?
When you understand your capacity, you stop making decisions from guilt and start making decisions from wisdom.
You stop feeling like you're failing.
You stop comparing.
You stop carrying responsibilities that were never yours to begin with.
And most importantly, you create room to show up as the mom, wife, and woman you were called to be.
Protect your capacity.
Honor your capacity.
Because burnout is expensive, but self awareness is priceless.
How would you rate your current capacity right now on a scale of 1 to 10?
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