Capacity Meter: Find Out Exactly What You’ve Got to Give (So You Can Give It to Your Book) with Jessica Abel
Cartoonist, author, and business coach for creatives Jessica Abel introduces her free Capacity Meter, a quick private tool for seeing how much time and energy you have right now. Capacity combines your calendar with your health, sleep, caregiving, money pressure, and emotional load. Plan around it and you can drop the shame when a plan falls apart. Sue Campbell takes the tool for a live walkthrough, then the audience tries it and brings questions. Get the Capacity Meter at https://jessicaabel.com/capacity-meter/
00:05 Welcome and introduction of Jessica Abel
01:40 What capacity is and why it matters for writers
05:14 Capacity Meter demo: gut read, then the questions (with Sue)
14:08 Reading the results: what the number and the gut-check gap tell you
19:10 Your turn: everyone tries the Capacity Meter
23:20 Live Q&A begins
26:28 Q&A: finishing a book while building an audience (capacity vs. criteria)
31:04 Q&A: very low capacity, and how to get help with little money
38:01 Q&A: high capacity but not getting much done
44:48 Q&A: ADHD, burnout, and building flexible habits
51:29 Q&A: lowering the bar and the two-minute writing habit
55:50 Closing comments and where to get the tool