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okay I want to talk about the difference between resources and resourcefulness so I have some mason jars here I've got some tennis balls I've got some pingpong balls I have some oven cleaner which we don't need and I have some rye okay so these jars represent your resources maybe you have a few resources and maybe you have some more res resources okay now how does life go well normal life we have some things that are really important some things that are less important and some things that really aren't all that important at all and basically in normal life we just kind of haphazardly dump out our resources and split them into these things right and life just comes along and we just go along filling things up as they come along so on and so forth and eventually we reach a point where there's no more room for important things that come along and so what do we do we freak out and there are various ways you can go you can try to get more resources because if you had more resources all of this would fit just fine and make a really bad mess for someone else to clean up but the problem is getting more resources isn't something that you can usually do in a moment right and so while that's a really great thing to worry about long term and you can find another job where you make more money or you can teach yourself to sleep fewer hours at night or you can take classes to learn a new language or learn to think critically better than you did before those are all long-term goals right so what could you do right here right now to vastly improve the impact of the decisions that you make in life well you can prioritize so let me show you how to do that so here's all the stuff that wouldn't fit in here before all right so if we take all of this and we start picking things out based on how important they are then all of the sudden what we can do if we arrange it intelligently is we can actually fit almost all the important stuff in there and now I'll make a big mess if I try but we could actually fit in if we're intentional about it we can actually fit in almost everything that we had before maybe I'll stop here but you get the point right if I put all this in here all that we'd have left is one of these and just a little of this that doesn't fit whereas before we couldn't fit in this whatever this really important thing is do you understand and so this is resourcefulness prioritizing your life by what's most important will help you get a lot more out of it and at the end of the day even though you're handling it differently at the end of the day the difference in what you have to do is very minor like I said we had one of these and a little of this left over but the difference in the impact can be enormous so I invite you to think about how to increase your resources but that's a long-term goal think more about how you can increase your resourcefulness and if you need help in that this is a book you should check out it's called Joy on purpose I wrote it and in it you'll find lots and lots and lots of practical tools for how to organize your life by importance