Meditations on God

In our youth, we feel as if our internal resources are infinite.

It feels like we will live forever and can do just about anything.

As you get older, however, you begin to realize that you have a limited amount of time, energy, and attention to give away each day.

And when you reach your capacity, when you have no more of yourself to give, in order to add some new task, goal, or relationship to your life, something else must be sacrificed.

The resources you need for this new focus must come from somewhere and so, in order to add some new thing to your life, you will have to give less of yourself in some other area.

If you do not withdraw your time, energy, or attention from some external aspect of your life, you will be pulling from the resources that should be reserved for your health.

And this is unsustainable.

You must, therefore, learn how to prioritize the allocation of your internal resources, and to give less of yourself to that which matters least so that you can give more of yourself to that which matters most.

This means learning how to say, “No.”