It’s Friday! What are you doing this weekend? Taking some time to rest, or intending to work through because you can get just that little bit further ahead?
Any human on the planet can work incredibly hard and be protected from burn out so long as they take at solid 24 hour period of time off in a consistent way every week.
E.G. I stop working when I turn everything down on Friday night (or early Saturday morning) and don’t start again until Sunday afternoon. So a little over 24 hours, but it’s the same every week.
This past Saturday I was tempted to dive into something later in the evening and opted not to. Waited until Sunday afternoon and found I had much more energy for it.
This isn’t purely a physical rest requirement. It’s mental, emotional, and spiritual. Burnout, every time i’ve encountered it, isn’t physical. There can be physical aspects, but it’s primarily mental, emotional, spiritual.
You have more value than what you produce. The discipline of stopping is a thing that frustrates you into simultaneously believing and experiencing this as a truth of your life.
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