Good evening, everybody. How you all doing? Winding that week down. All right. I don't know what it

means for you because I know some people work through the weekend, but for those that are more week-based

standardized or however you'd say that, almost through. We're almost through. All right, we've got a great

show plan for you. We're going to be talking about a lot of different stuff, as always, using certain entry points

into a topic, but rounding it out so it feels, you know, something that's relatable to everyone.

Wanted to open up with the articleized reading in The Guardian.

They have some really decent articles at times.

I know there's some controversy sometimes around the Guardian, but basically the headline was

a study links too much free time to lower sense of well-being.

And I think it's important to talk about because I often talk about how we need more joy,

we need more downtime, we need more rest.

All of that holds true.

And this article isn't debunking that.

What it is debunking or not debunking, what it is clarifying, and I'm glad it's pointing

to the

nuance of this, is that there's a level where it actually switches over, having a lot of

downtime and rest from self-care into a lower level of well-being. Why is that? I'll tell you why.

As humans, we're all about meaning-making. We're all about purpose and meaning. Now, that's not to say that we're focusing on toxic hyper productivity.

Because again, we're always trying to remind ourselves and those around us that we have worth and value,

not tied to how productive we are.

You know what we mean?

Our worth is not in what we can produce or how much money we can make.

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