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Key takeaways:

• The most important skill is your capacity to hold tension.
• Life and business are inherently filled with tension and challenges.
• Increased capacity leads to greater awareness and choice.
• Holding tension allows for long-term growth over short-term satisfaction.
• Physical capacity can be expanded by intentionally seeking discomfort.
• Mental capacity involves building systems for clarity and focus.
• Emotional capacity requires feeling unfelt emotions to break patterns.
• Energetic capacity is about setting boundaries and living with integrity.
• Success is determined by the ability to hold tension without collapsing.
• Reflect on where you are collapsing into confusion or overwhelm.

Sound bites:

"I had zero capacity."

"I couldn't hold the tension."

"I focus on one thing a day."

Time stamps:

00:00 The Importance of Holding Tension

02:56 Personal Journey: From Collapse to Capacity

05:53 Expanding Capacity: Four Planes of Growth

08:53 Practical Strategies for Holding Tension