All right, what is up, my friend?

Welcome to a special episode here of the Art of Online Business podcast, Rick here.

And I'm going to, for to peel back the curtains about what's going on over here at Rick Mulready headquarters.

As I sit in my office here looking out the window recording this,

I'm going to get super vulnerable with you here today.

So if you don't like vulnerability and just sort of getting real,

that would be a good time to stop because that's going to happen here.

So I want to take this opportunity on this episode here today

to share with you that I have decided to take a sabbatical.

I want to take a sabbatical from the business for mental well-being reasons.

I'm going to do a 90-day sabbatical.

And the sabbatical is going to start on May 1st.

And this was not an easy decision to come to at all.

I feel like I've been, I feel like I've done something wrong to, to be honest with you, to allow

myself to get to this point. I mean, after all, this is how I, this is a huge part of how I help

people.

But I'm always my own worst critic.

And it is a necessary next step for my health.

What I've realized is that I've been struggling with burnout for several months now.

And it's so much easier to see burnout in others than it is in ourselves. It got to a point where I was tired and I was lethargic constantly, regardless of how much sleep I got. And I did

chalk it out to like, all right, you know, well, I just didn't sleep well last night.

So I need to get more sleep.

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