Hey everyone, Ben Cooper Radio. I hope you're well. I hope you're having an awesome day. If not, let's

see if I can make it more awesome. So today I want to talk briefly about being human and not being a machine. And the reason why this has come up is because I've just

taken a week's holiday. A week's holiday at home, which is weird. I've never actually done this in my life, ever, never taken a week at home which is weird I've never actually done this in my life ever never

taken a week at home I've always gone away done something just yeah and because I

really value travel and getting away. I quite often take anywhere between four and seven

holidays a year whether it's the West Country or abroad or the Cotswolds whatever.

Anyway I took a week's holiday at home and I did this because I was frankly, mentally, completely burnt out.

For about a week I'd been getting up in the morning and just sort of staring at my laptop, feeling like I needed a strong dose of caffeine just to even get through some emails.

Exercise was very hard almost impossible and it felt like I needed

to really gee myself up and then if I did exercise it absolutely knacked me the next day and I needed

like two days recovery just to get over a basic cycle ride and stuff and it went on for about a week and then I just said enough is enough and I got my team

on a call and I said guys I need to take a week off I sat down with my wife said I'm going to

take a week off, is that okay?

And basically, talk to the people I need to, to make sure it was okay.

And I just down tools, walked away and had a week off.

And that might seem like a very basic move.

Yeah, you're tired, you're worn out, take a week off.

But when you're sort of into personal development, when you're sort of inter-personal development, when you're into fitness, when you are a productive

person, when you have quite high expectations of what you would do every day and you value output and progress, it can be

hard to take that move and you quite often look for solutions in the wrong places like for example one of my symptoms was not recovering from exercise so I was

Analyzing what I was doing like why am I getting tired? Why am I absolutely nacker the next day? Why does my whole body hurt? Why does my whole body feel like a lead weight? I can't even get it out of bed. And I was analyzing the wrong kind of stuff.

Like, why am I mentally tired?

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