All work and no play is no fun at all

I agree and I would encourage you to find work that is fun and as the saying goes, you’ll never work another day in your life…

HOWEVER, if you bury yourself in your work and don’t take the time to stop and breathe, you will be reducing your creativity and the potential impact that you can have in this world.

Just like going to the gym, we exercise and tear our muscles so that they may grow back stronger, the key here is the REST. The time given for the muscles to repair and grow.

Are you allowing that time for your genius, have you found yourself burnt out by what you are doing, losing the enthusiasm for your craft and your business, maybe even losing the enthusiasm and interest for your family and loved ones?

This is a serious topic and high achievers really struggle here because doing ‘nothing’ or not working on their ‘passion’ (which by the way means suffering…) is a waste of time. They feel to have the impact in the world they want, requires constant work and constant service. This only works for a short period of time.

So my charge here is to think, how often are you booking in your creative time, your healing time, the time away form your work and commitments. Now before you say that is not possible, I will tell you that you have to MAKE it possible before it is impossible, and you find yourself at the end of your creativity and productivity.

But practically what does this look like?

Here are three ways you should implement your rest and creative time. To be and to enjoy the things you love, be that reading, cycling, walking in nature. One must is that it should be away from technology and distraction.

1.       Daily rest breaks.
Take 10 minutes every 60/90 minutes to step away from what you are doing and breathe.

2.       Weekly creative/rest breaks.
Have a day, ideally two away from your work and your technology to simply be. Be still and be creative, you are not missing out on work time here, you are recharging to be more productive once the work time starts again.

3.       Quarterly creative breaks.
Each quarter, take a week if not more off and allow your genius to wonder, allow your creativity to shine and dream. Have this time to recalibrate, become creative and fall in love with your chosen craft again.

All high achievers, creatives and athletes take the breaks to recharge and reset. Allow yourself the time to do so.

With love

Tom