Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

It’s Not the Big Things — It’s the Tiny Ones That Tip Us Over

13 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Small physical irritations like tight clothes, temperature, and light sensitivity can push you over the edge faster than big problems. Fixing these tiny discomforts gives you more capacity to handle actual crises. Especially useful if you live with chronic illness or migraine.

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You have to start removing the tiny ones so that you can handle the things that are big and overwhelming. Right. And is it your shirt? Is it— as a woman, is it your bra? Is your bra itchy today? Are your earrings too tight? Do you need tighter earrings? Do you need a headband? Do you need a baseball hat to shade some of the light? And do you need that pressure on your head, especially for those of us that have like chronic illness and migraines and things like that? Is your shirt too warm? Are you too cold? Are you too itchy? Like, what are all of those little things? So there are a million ways to handle that. Give yourself a little humor. I mean, for heaven's sake, the world is too serious. Let's laugh at something.