Happy Thursday, everybody. Hope your week is winding down well. I hope you taking care of yourselves.

I've been doing as much self-care as possible. I've been sleeping in. I've been trying to kind of go to

bed earlier, get up at a, you know, eight or nine hour point. I need a good eight or nine hours of

sleep. And I know that that's like a foundational anchor to the rest of my day in terms of my mood,

my energy levels. Also, my happiness. And that's kind of what I'm leading with these days.

All decision making. I'm saying, how does that feel when I think about scheduling that,

saying yes to that or participating in that? And if it feels good and it seems like it's aligned

with my values and my ethics and I'm happy,

I'm down. But I check in with myself. I'm like, how does it make me feel? And if it makes me feel

anxious or uncomfortable, I'll pause and I'll say, what is that about? And is that something I want to

honor? I no longer just come from the perspective of more is always better or trying to feel like

my self worth and my confidence is tied to how productive

or busy I am because that's that's a false construct and that's always going to kind of fail you

and let you down and so it's really about me making sure I'm living a life that's tied to my

full of meaning and just kind of tied to the kind of life I want to live and I want my life these

days to be really rooted in me kind of doing my work and so I'm prioritizing my writing and my research and my reading

and my rest and my happiness. And everything kind of falls in place around that.

Because those are my goals, I think, for the rest of the year is I want to make sure I'm

getting eight or nine hours of sleep or more, really resting and just feeling

I'm productive in the ways that are meaningful to me. But the weekend's coming. So make sure you are

focusing on the big trifecta, the big three. Make sure you are planning for this weekend every day,

tons of self-care, tons of things that bring you nothing but joy and pleasure and also tons of

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