Welcome to the Black Al Burnout podcast. Kelly here. And today I want to talk about the theme again of this

month, which is to release and reflect, but to think about how to opt into reflecting through rest.

The lessons we can learn in the quiet, in the stillness. This time of year might be really busy for you.

You might be traveling.

You might have kiddos that you want to celebrate a holiday with.

You might just be closing out projects.

There's no end to our to do lists.

And yet, I want to invite you to rest with me.

And as an extension, if you're looking for something to make that rest productive, quote unquote, which I would argue you don't need. But if you're like me

and you're like a recovering perfectionist type A, got to be doing something person, then the way to do

that is to see that the rest can be reflective.

And in the space we give ourselves and in the peace and the quiet we give ourselves,

lessons can emerge, new realizations can emerge. Some of the biggest lessons and the most

profound reflections happen when we slow down and embrace the quiet.

I am someone who for a long time, not so much anymore, but for many years, really resisted rest

and felt like pushing myself going all the time, having 50,000 things to do at once gave me a feeling of worth. Like it made me

feel like, oh, this is how I identify. This is what makes Kelly an incredible person is that I'm

go, go, going. I can do anything. I'm juggling. And it's a habit that I'll be honest, I haven't fully

broke, but I've gotten better with managing.

So now instead of 50 things on my plate, maybe there's 10 or 50.

It's just a huge drop-off for me.

I'm someone who didn't want one business, never saw myself as an entrepreneur.

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