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Just a quick thought on taking an opportunity to rest because it’s a human requirement.
If I simplify my thoughts as I begin to write this, it’d be this:
“I feel a bit bad because I have so many things that I want to do, but I lack the energy to do it all right now.”
I feel like I was rocking my professional work as well as my personal work, but the past few weeks have piled up the exhaustion. The last two weeks or so, I have not worked on my writing at home.
I’ve continued to do well at work, but I get home most afternoons or evenings pretty much out of gas. For my professional progression, this is a good indicator of the energy I put into my work. However, it is not sustainable for life.
I’m curious as to why I seemed to do alright prior to this greater sense of exhaustion – the work I do in the office may have increased in intensity without my full awareness. Maybe my nutrition or exertion is off as of late.
This morning – two weeks late on my usual blog post schedule – I did not get out of bed until 1100. It’s a day off, so nothing is wrong with that, but it felt wrong.
It felt wrong at first.
As I woke up and decided on breakfast, I realized it was fine; my body clearly needed the time to rest. And that realization trickled through my other concerns:
Taking time to rest, even on my big personal projects, is not going to hurt me. It will probably make them better since it isn’t a desperate bid to push out a heartless word count.
Intentionally taking time to rest is important, because there is a limit any of us can reach before our bodies force us to take time to rest.
So, yeah. Take time to recuperate or time will be taken from you.
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