Doing More With Less

Many people are experiencing an internal conflict. On one hand, they’re busier than ever and don’t have any capacity for more. Yet on the other hand, expectations are higher than ever and they need to do more things, be in more places, and make it all work. It’s an unwinnable equation and needless to say people are finding it challenging to strike an appropriate balance. 

The default response is that people realize they need to do more with less. They need to become more efficient, get more done in less time, and pack even more into an already full schedule. Unfortunately this puts them into a reactive, defensive position as they try to manage it all and figure out how to get it done in a way that's “good enough”.

But rather than solving the problem from the perspective of being limited on resources, what if you choose to be resourceful. Rather than believing that you ‘need to do more with less’, you believe that you ‘can do more with less’. A simple reframe charges you with encouragement, creative thinking, agency, and on positions you to be on offense as you seek to solve the problem. It ignites personal innovation and empowers you to come up with something that’s even better than required.

For example, let’s say that you have a work project that has a seemingly impossible deadline. ‘Needing to do more in less time’ might get you cutting corners and doing a good enough job to get by without consequence. But embracing that you ‘can do more with less’ has you repurposing old frameworks and ideas that expand on the original intention. 

Tony Robbins is known for saying “It's not the lack of resources, it's your lack of resourcefulness that stops you.” Embracing the mindset that ‘you can do more with less’, and that there’s hope, possibility, and opportunity on the horizon, is how you create beyond the requirements of your role and excel in ways others won’t.

And at the end of the day, if you absolutely need to get something done, you’re going to find a way to get it done. What I’m encouraging you to do is look more positively on the problem so that you aren’t constrained to the limitations and scarcity of needing to do it, and tap into the abundance of what’s possible.