Hey everyone, Benkimer Radio. I hope you are well and having an awesome day or you've got the vision

to know how you're going to have an awesome day. And that's kind of the topic of today is having an awesome day by knowing when to quit things and I suppose ultimately say no, not just our other people but to yourself.

And the reason why I think this is an important topic is in the age of social media

and influences and technology, there's kind of always this sort of entrepreneurial do more,

fill every hour of the day vibe. And don't get me wrong, it has its benefits, it has its purposes, and really the purpose is for you to get as much out of your time

as possible but like anything there is a time and a place for that. So if I think back to my 20s when I was at

university after university when I was starting a business I was a hugely productive person like from the moment I opened my eyes to the moment I went

to bed I was doing something and I had the energy for it I had the time I had the vision and just the overall desire and I'm not just

talking about work I'm talking about play as well so there was a time at

university where I was doing five different jobs at once on top of my work dissertation on top of

Starting a business and it's because I filled every hour of the day and I was

still going out two or three nights a week yeah some nights I was only getting five

hour sleep but when you're younger you can kind of handle that and you're happy to burn the wick at both ends a bit and I was and I did.

But when you get older, things change and what happens is sometimes we get caught in habit loops we pick up routines

and practices that serve us for a period of time but then don't continue to service at another point in time and

sometimes it's hard to let go sometimes it's hard to let go because you've

formed a habit there you are worried about you know going

backwards you think all well if I stop like all the benefits be lost are the

benefits gonna stick around And then also it can form part of your identity.

You know, if I think about bits of my identity, part of my identity is being a lifelong learner. Like I love absorbing

information growing as a person, understanding myself and the world and people and you know lots of different topics I love it

but there's a point in time where you need to let go and know when it's not

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