Nutrition Nugget: Capacity

[00:00:26] Now, one of my business coaches talks about this concept all the time. She talks about capacity in terms of a company and its growth. According to Forbes, capacity is the maximum amount that something can contain. So think of the capacity of your water bottle, right? It can only hold so many ounces. By definition, capacity is a finite amount.

[00:01:18] Key to capability is that the skills can be learned or developed. So go with me on this one. When it comes to health and habits, or frankly anything we wanna do. We write the goal or create the expectations for ourselves based on our capabilities, you are 1000% capable of doing absolutely anything you wanna do, because even if you don't in this moment, know how to do it.

[00:02:16] Or maybe it's not even about this time of year. Maybe you're in a phase of life where you have young kids. Maybe you're not sleeping much because they're not sleeping much, or you're taking care of kids and aging parents, which requires more and more of your time. The thing I want everyone to recognize is that these are real factors to consider.

[00:02:57] Like the reality that we kind of just went through of [00:03:00] having extra things, maybe picking up dinner from the diner, even if it's something that you could have made. That's what you can handle tonight. Maybe it means a 10 minute walk, a couple times a day while you're on a phone call or going back to what I call DWDS drink water, do squats, right?

[00:03:40] Now, think about this too. When it comes to comparison, we see people on social media or celebrities, especially when we look at a lot of the biohackers, a lot of the tech bros, right? Their capacity. Is very different than yours. Maybe because they have resources for a chef or other [00:04:00] things. Fine. Let's just align our expectations with our capacity versus expecting theirs to be ours.

[00:04:32] So what does it look like to increase our capacity? Or at times decrease our capacity, right? Because it can move in both directions. So certainly at times, right? Maybe you don't have kids, then you do, right? There's a decrease in that capacity potentially. But this time of year we have holiday parties and holiday shopping and travel and you know, like the example we gave, this may be a time of contracting capacity.

[00:05:25] You can increase your energetic capacity by choosing energizing foods, minimizing the energy, zapping foods, right? Quality nutrition over the choices that create blood sugar spikes and drops. Maybe increasing capacity, looks like support. So maybe that's a significant other. A sibling, a friend saying to someone, Hey, I need you to be here when the kids get home from school because that will allow me to, and then fill in the blank with what you're gonna do with that time.

[00:06:23] So Ben, our featured expert of the week, thoughts, anything you wanna share?

[00:06:39] And almost consider if you're willing to spend the extra, you know, 15 minutes to do it. Doing like an audit of your schedule. A hundred percent nonsense. Because there's many times where you realize, you look back and you're thinking, I spent 90 minutes scrolling. I could have done so much stuff, and maybe it was 10 minutes here and 20 minutes there, but there's a lot of things that you could cut out that suddenly you didn't have [00:07:00] time for, fill in the blank, important thing for your health, but now you do because you cut out a bunch of the nonsense and the noise.

[00:07:19] Jenn Trepeck: Yes. A time audit Maybe that we should do an episode on how to do a time audit because it is real and enlightening.

[00:07:28] Ben Tzeel: scary. Yeah, scary enlightening,

[00:07:29] Ben Tzeel: also very important. I feel like I, I honestly think everyone should do it once a year, at least

[00:07:35] Ben Tzeel: And maybe every day you have a different schedule, but you have roughly the same idea and going from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed instead of just during the day when you're at work.

[00:07:45] Jenn Trepeck: Yeah, a thousand percent. And I think it's also worth repeating. You are a million percent capable. The limiting factors are capacity. Yep.

[00:07:58] Jenn Trepeck: For sure. [00:08:00] Well, as always, everybody, I'm your host, Jenn Trepeck Connect with the on Instagram or all social media.

[00:08:23] Ben Zeal, thank you again for joining us.

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