It's important to just give yourself the time off.

It's valuable in and of itself.

And then B, from a productivity lens, we do have a real tendency to come back more energized,

more focused, more creative than ever before.

Very similarly to how when you let a field lay fallow or plant cover crops, it actually is very re-nutrianting to the soil.

So that kind of time off, I think of it as re-nutrienting to our metaphorical soil.

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Let's talk about how to prepare to take a chunk of time off in your business without

being worried that you're going to have to scramble or lose momentum or becoming irrelevant or whatever fears

might come up around taking a chunk of time off.

Now, I want to be clear that I did not take extended chunks of time off until I was

several years into my business.

So if you're in day one in your business, this may be a

dream to put on the vision board like a few years down the road. Because it, the reason I will

often take a chunk of time off in the summer to be with my kids and just to save her life is that I have

some momentum to ride on from the deposits I've been putting in from consistency over years and

years. So I would say our first key here is number one consistency. When we are consistent in our

on seasons, we can have the luxury of just taking some time off. And in fact, there's a couple

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