Sometimes gaining more requires making room rather than adding effort.

Adding effort to a full life produces exhaustion rather than progress, because there is nowhere for the new thing to go. Making room is the unglamorous alternative: removing a commitment, ending something that has run its course, declining a recurring obligation. It feels like less and it is usually what allows more.

Before adding anything, find something to remove. One meeting, one obligation, one subscription of your time. Space is the resource that most new things actually require.