Hey, hey, hey, hoping everyone is good, hoping everyone is well.

I was sitting there thinking after a long weekend, how rest really is a renewing of not only

the mental capacity, spiritually, and the physical aspect of, and how we've been programmed to feel that rest is a luxury or something

that we should earn.

So I was thinking about the dynamics and how the world is kind of made up, how we've been

programmed to think that you've got to work a certain amount of hours in order

to gain rest, that you have to work a certain amount of hours to gain vacation time.

Even thinking of the process of having to ask someone, can I get a day off, even if that day

means I do absolutely nothing or it's important

it's an important date or something coming up and now I got to go to someone higher up and

request my day off and though I understand in the corporate sense in a business aspect that

the ask is what is protocol based on the fact that, you know, we all have to fill a position in work, I also thought about it on the other end of that.

I've been an entrepreneur for 16 years.

God has truly kept my business.

And because I've been doing it for 16 years, I know how to kind of move financial-wise.

And I also take my time of rest.

Rest was not a priority whenever I began into entrepreneurship.

I think when you first go in, the one thing that you really want to do

is hone in on whatever you're doing and make yourself available. And so what seems to happen

is because you want to make yourself available, you forget about yourself and your needs.

And I realized really quickly that I was becoming burnt out very fast but I'm also a person

too that just believes keep moving keep going be resilient regardless of what until I just

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