What You Can

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt

This fluctuates, and that’s okay. Sometimes you can do more. Sometimes you can do less. Sometimes everything’s going your way, you have energy you don’t know what to do with, and very few commitments knocking at your door. Sometimes, everything sucks, you’re sick or you’re depressed or you have a thousand things to do on top of the stuff that gets shoved aside like eating and sitting. That’s okay.

Do what you can, and if that’s less than yesterday or a year ago, that’s okay. If it’s more, that’s okay, too. Don’t beat yourself up over the whims of life, the changes that seem to come out of nowhere about which you can do nothing. Do what you can, and take care of yourself while you’re doing it. And if taking care of yourself is all that you can do with what you have, where you are, then do that, because there are very few things more important than taking care of yourself. If you don’t, there won’t be a you later on to do even more things. Take care of yourself and do what you can.