101: It Was Never a Capacity Issue. It Was This.

In this impromptu, riff-while-the-kids-are-home kind of episode, I share the breakthrough that cracked me wide open:

I thought I had a capacity issue. When the real issue was something else entirely...

If you’ve ever told yourself "I just don’t have the time," but deep down you know you could move mountains if you had clarity and direction — this one’s for you.

We’re talking:

• The real difference between capacity and time constraint
• Why “not enough time” is often just a disguise for something else
• How to get back into your power, fast
• What I realized needs to change in how I run my business moving forward

It’s raw. It’s honest. It’s the exact message I wish I’d heard months ago.

🎧 Press play — this could change everything for you.

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Transcript

Megan: 0:00

I had the biggest breakthrough yesterday that I had to sit here and share it right now, even though it's a crazy day. I have kids home from school. We need to be packing for our upcoming trip. There's so much to do, but I knew that this needed to be shared. And so here I am sharing it with you. I hear all the background noise in the world, um, and we're just gonna roll with that, right? So. If you know anything about me, you know that I have three kids under the age of five and I work part-time. I mean really less than that on my business each week. And it vari, it varies. Life life's all the time. And what I was realizing is that over the past, gosh, year, maybe not quite a full year, but eight to nine months, maybe longer. I have continuously told myself that my main constraint, my main issue was capacity and just, Hey, I'm in a season where I have limited capacity. I'm in a season where I can't spend that much time towards my business. I'm in a season where my capacity is driving decisions. And that was a story I believed, and it was interesting to look back on this yesterday and to realize that a lot of the changes in pivots and shifts that I've made over the past eight to nine months, whether it was, um, closing down certain programs, rebranding certain programs, changing delivery, um, deciding to go from evergreen to launching and then deciding not to launch just all of this. Back and forth, which honestly is like a whole separate thing I wanna reflect on and, and share with you. But it has been happening kind of the past eight to nine months. A lot of changing. And y'all know, I love to change. I love a good pivot. I love a good evolution. But to me there's a very big difference between this like grounded pivot and evolution and, and what you know, to be kind of this just like. Constantly changing your mind thing, which is where I was, I was coming back to, and anytime I was having conversations with mentors, especially last fall around what I felt like wasn't working, it was like we all believed this story, that the issue was my capacity and I kept being told, and this is no one else's fault. I'm not like blaming anyone I had a conversation with, but it's funny to look back and be like, oh yeah, well, I closed that membership because of my capacity. It's like, well, I don't think I've actually had a capacity issue. I, it wasn't really about how much time I had or not, and I can see this pattern from the past, you know, eight to nine months intermittently, where there was this story that I had limited capacity, that I didn't have enough capacity to do X, Y, or Z, and because I believed it, anyone else I was. Talking to about it also believed it, right? They're gonna take my word for it, or they're going to interpret any issues I'm having. Any problems I'm having as coming back to this constraint on my time and this capacity issue and the realization that I had yesterday was that capacity has never actually been the issue for me, because when I know what I'm doing and I'm convicted in it, I can get insane. Amounts of stuff done in very little time. Because I do it simply because I trust myself, because I do it imperfectly. When I know what I'm doing, when I'm convicted in it, when I'm grounded in it, I can go and do. And that in any of these seasons where I felt like there was a problem to solve, I kept thinking the problem was my time, was my capacity was that I maxed myself out when in fact I don't know that I've hit that point of being actually maxed out. Again, I do things quickly and imperfectly and embodied, and it's channeled and it's very like reducing friction. Let's go. Let's take action. That's my gift. And the real problem that I run into is not capacity. It's that somewhere along the lines I lose conviction or I lose trust in myself and I start to look outside of myself and I start to convince myself that I have problems that aren't really there. I. And I start to tell myself that my issue is capacity. Oh, I over committed, or I can't do all this, or blah, blah, blah. But the reality is that for whatever reason, when I lose that conviction and I lose that focus, and I lose that clarity on what I'm working on and working towards, I start to scramble. I start to waste time. I start to create problems. I start to spend more time trying to figure out what to do. Then spending time actually doing the work that matters. So I end up creating a capacity issue because I'm spending so much time trying to figure out what to do or change something or thinking through or doing something on the backend that I end up creating a time constraint because I'm spending so much time on the wrong thing that when it's time to do the work that matters, it feels like there's very little time left over. And because of all of that, I end up putting myself in this like, reactive last minute or, you know, urgency standpoint that we all know when we're coming at anything from this place of urgency or scarcity. It's never going to work out how we want it to. It doesn't mean it's gonna fail or flop or anything, but it's, it's not going to be the same as when we're coming from that like convicted, grounded place. And when I know what I'm doing, what I'm convicted in, what I'm doing. It can be freaking magical. The amount I can get done, and not from like a productivity standpoint, but just like how quickly, how quickly I can move forward and how quickly I can take action and how, how large my capacity actually is, even when there isn't a lot of time, and just this really important distinction for me, that capacity and the amount of time I have are not actually the same thing and that I can hold a large capacity. Even in seasons where I have small amounts of time, it's just about having conviction in the work I'm doing, staying focused on what I'm working towards, and continuing to focus and get guidance more internally from my intuition, my own self, my own experiences. My own work with my clients, my own life than it is from looking outside of myself thinking that someone else has it figured out. My biggest seasons of momentum and growth in my business were when I was very focused in on what I wanted to do, even when it didn't make sense, when I was choosing to do less and to do it imperfectly. To not worry about doing it all, not worry about doing the highest ROI, the most strategic, the most leveraged, and instead saying what allows me to move forward quicker? Doesn't have to be effortless, doesn't have to be easy, right? It's all going to challenge us in new ways. But the seasons where I was able to grow exponentially and to feel fully embodied and convicted in my work, I was doing far less. Not, not necessarily like less programs, less stuff like that. My delivery has always been incredible. I've always loved working with clients in multiple levels. I've always loved showing up in big ways, but I mean more of less in terms of all the different things we can do, all the different ways we can grow our business and show up and make sales and do all the things. My biggest seasons of growth were when I was focused and I was comfortable. Saying no to all the different things we can do, and I said, Nope. I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna serve my clients in these ways, and then I'm going to start doing and I'm going to be okay not knowing what this is going to look like. A year from now. I'm going to be okay knowing that it's one step at a time, but I'm going to go. Fully into that next step. And I'm going to be comfortable knowing I don't know everything and knowing that I don't know what step two will be, but I know what step one is, knowing that I may be making a choice right now. That isn't my choice forever, but it is my choice right now and I'm so glad I had this reminder yesterday and, and. This new realization that my capacity is not linked to my time, and that there's a difference between how much you have capacity for energetically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, yes, in time also, but in actual time available. The issue isn't my capacity. The issue has been my focus. The issue has been not knowing what I'm doing, not trusting what I'm doing. And I, it feels vulnerable sharing that because this is work I help my clients with all of the time. But I think it just goes to show that, hey, I'm not perfect and I am so passionate about the work I help my clients with because it's fully embodied. This is stuff I am constantly myself going deeper on. Growing with refining and having new realizations on. And I hope for you that you may be in a season where you have limited time. And I'm not here to say capacity in a time sense isn't real, but I wanna create a distinction for you that the issue, the problem, the constraint, may not actually be your time available for your business. It may actually be your. Focus and confidence and conviction and knowing what to do with that time. Are you spending so much time thinking and planning and deciding and strategizing that you're not spending enough time actually doing, and that might be why you feel like you have a capacity issue. Because when you sit down to work, whether it's five minutes or five hours, you don't actually know what you're working on. And what you're working towards, because that's where I can see now. I've been in that pattern on and off, and it has led to some frustrations and it has led to some decisions that I can look back on and say, you know what? I've made that decision trying to escape something. I created my own problem that led to that change or that decision. You know, I made this shift thinking it was gonna solve my problems, but I realized I was focusing on the wrong. Dang, that wasn't the real problem, and I hope that hearing this can change something for you. Whether it feels applicable now or again in the future, that this can be something that pops in your head that you know, maybe the issue isn't truly your capacity, that it truly isn't your time, but it's what you're doing with that time. It's your focus, it's your own conviction, and that that is something we can work on. That is something you can very quickly. Shift and change and recalibrate, and I wish I had realized that this is what is happening so that I could work with my mentors at the time, my support system at the time to work on the problem that actually mattered, not the problem I kind of created. That led to a ripple effect. So here's to all of us doing the damn thing in seasons with limited time in seasons with real constraints on the, you know, physical time you can put towards your business, but also to this realization that our capacity to what we can hold space for is not limited by that time constraint. And that we have a great amount of capacity to have this incredibly full and fulfilling business, even in limited amounts of times where we can serve a vast amount of people, we can work with incredible amounts of dream clients in lots of really fun ways, and that we don't have to limit what we view we can do based on our time when we know. What we're focused on when we're convicted in our work, when we're embodied in it and we're doing it imperfectly and we were just taking it one step at a time, fully trusting ourselves. We can do a lot. So here's to us, let's go do the damn thing.