Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Have you heard the expression? I'm sure you have many, many times. Be careful what you wish for.

I would like to add to this by saying, be careful what you wish for when you are tired or when you are

angry or when you maybe feel hungry or even just a little lonely. Isn't that the HALT,

hungry, angry, lonely, tired? To me, fatigue is probably the worst. And when there is a fatigued version of me, I just,

I don't think I'm rational. And I'm aware enough of myself to almost have a conversation and

say, look, if I'm making an important decision today or there's a meeting or even a important

conversation with my husband, I'll say, look, you know, I'm tired today. Maybe let's do this

tomorrow or later or after a nap or something because you are not going to get, not even the best version of me. You're not going to get the real me. I'm going to say things that I don't mean. Think about a screaming child, right? When they're tired, if you ever met when I was a nanny and my kids didn't take their nap, but they were, they had a lot to say, they had a lot of kicking to do, a lot of screaming, but I knew it wasn't a real them. They're just tired. We are the same, my friends. We're just older and taller, okay? And I have a fable to illustrate this beautifully today. It's called the old man and death.

An old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest and in carrying it into the city for sale one day,

being very wearied with his long journey, he sat down by the wayside and throwing down his load besought death to come.

Death immediately appeared in answer to his summons and asked for what reason he had called him.

The old man replied, that lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders.

You see that? He prays for death.

Death appears and he's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Give me the wood back.

For the wood back on my shoulders.

I want to sell it.

I want to continue with my day, with my life, with all of this.

So often we actually don't want something to be over. We just want a break.

So it's interesting. Sometimes we think, I'm not cut out for this or I can't do it. I can't figure it out.

And you can. You're just tired. You don't need to quit. You need to take a week off. You don't need to

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