Somewhere within the play of these two statements lives aligned action.
Action that is in harmony with me and where I meet myself in the moment, action that attunes to my sense of purpose, and action that answers a call in the world.

The realms of what I am and what I can do are vast.

Could I actually do all I can and all I am in my lifetime?
I feel that I could strive for that and perhaps do a quantity of what I am and what I can. But I’m not alive to chase quantity.

At the end of my life there will be many roads I could have walked but didn’t. Many ways of expressing myself and life that I didn’t pursue. We’re always going to be able to look back and say ‘I could have done more’. We don’t authentically ever get to look on and say ‘I’ve done all I can’. That’s not real. And yet that tends to be the standard to which many of us hold ourselves. The self-deluding standard of ‘At least I can say I did all I could’. No action or amount of action is ever going to be able to validate our worth and existence, or express the sum of who we are or what we could do.

Within each one of us, the possibilities of what we could do are immense. We could do an infinite number of things. The power of agency within us is incredible.

Action gives life meaning. And we bring meaning into action by acting as ourselves, in whatever limited, heightened, contracted or expanded state we find ourselves. Matching who we are in the moment with something that is desired and possible in the moment.

What I am and what I can do are rich resources from which I can nourish myself and enhance life. They are not means by which my value as a human being is measured.