What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over Macros Podcast. Been a long hiatus. I just got back from a trip to Italy which was absolutely incredible and there was something I was thinking about as I just got back last

night and I kind of made this connection with what I experienced on my trip and kind of how we approach our fitness goals and especially how we approach things after a vacation or after things kind of get hectic or we have you know a social event or a family gathering a birthday barbecue, whatever the case may be.

So I'm going to explain that.

But first I just want to kind of provide some context.

So as I mentioned, I was in Italy for about 10 days and this trip was a little bit different.

Normally, you know, when you own your own business, you know, first of all, there's never a good time to go away and also there's never like a true break.

So typically when I go away I still have a lot of work to get done and this time was no different but I decided that I had been just

getting to that point of burnout and I really wanted to take some time and like

actually have time off and now I still did some work while I was there I still

checked in with clients and I still scheduled my,

you know, regular Monday, Wednesday, Friday emails, but, um, and you know, quick shameless plug.

If you're not on my email list you should get on that

because my emails are pretty damn good in my humble opinion but anyway so that

was that was pretty much it you know I really wanted to keep work to like an absolute minimum and give myself just some time to decompress, recharge my batteries. I've got an incredibly jam-packed couple of months ahead with a lot of stuff that's exciting.

It's a good problem to have, but I know that these next two to three months are going to be like serious grind long days I'm

going to be working a lot and so this trip was really about just enjoying the experience.

Italy has been very high up on my to-do list for a long time,

and I've just never made it happen,

and I think the timing, there was never going to be a perfect time, it was just about me making the decision to go.

And then I also knew that based off of what I had coming up with my work schedule,

that I really needed to just recharge and the reason I'm telling you this is

You know this trip was very much an all-in trip like I wasn't focusing on macros. I wasn't focusing on, you know, any sort of like

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