Sometimes less is more.

Hi Playmakers!

I’m almost eight months pregnant, and I’m feeling vulnerable.

I’m also building multiple businesses, creating content, and doing construction on our home. It’s honestly a lot. Too much, even.

I feel like I need to re-learn this lesson every couple of years: there is such a thing as doing too much. When I try to get everything done, I end up getting nothing done.

So this week I’m using this space to remind myself and anyone else out there that is trying to have it all. DO LESS. Seriously. I don’t see it as muting your own ambitions. I see it as going slow so that you can go fast.

I’ve decided to focus on one or two things I can do really well. I’m focusing on taking care of myself and this little human growing inside of me. I’m also working on getting all the final things in place to make our home baby ready.

My husband (God bless him) is taking care of most of the rest, from building furniture, taking meetings, and managing my calendar. He reminds me how we can go further together, and I’m grateful to have someone to lean on when I’m stretching myself too thin, pregnancy or not.

So that’s it. I’m doing less. That’s why it’s a short and sweet newsletter this week.

I want to hear from all of you. What do you do when you’ve taken on too much? How do you cut back and focus on the things that matter?

Jenny

She went from food stamps to the corner office of a $170 billion tech giant.

Before she became the first woman to lead IBM in its 100-year history, Ginni Rometty was a teenager in Chicago watching her father walk out, leaving her mother to raise four kids alone. She worked nights at the post office to afford college, sometimes finishing a semester with just twenty-five cents to her name.

Decades later, she would rise through the ranks to become IBM’s Chairman and CEO, breaking barriers in an industry where women were almost never at the top.

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You already know where I’m going with this. We live in a hustle culture that demands we succeed at every aspect of our lives, 24/7. But the most successful people I know focus their energy on one or two things really well. If you want to be great at something, your time should be spent on that one thing.

This week’s challenge: get something off of your plate.

It sounds easy, but it’s actually difficult. Put something on the back burner. Not everything is code red urgent. Think about something you can push to next month, or heck, even next year!

Call to Action:

1️⃣ Table something “urgent” for a later date.

2️⃣ Report back and let me know how it went! Drop a comment or share your post below. The best responses may be featured next week.

Every week, I spotlight somebody from the community who is making a big play in their career or industry. This week’s play comes from Kasey Brown.

I spotlighted Kasey as this week’s #Playmaker for this week’s viral post on leadership accountability. We’ve all seen the Forbes 30u30 lists, the endless press PR pieces about money raised, but what happens when the leaders don’t end up delivering? What happens when the press headlines disappear and bad actors simply get away with their actions. It’s a great read and a good thread, too.

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