Defeating the power of busy over you

# Chapter 341

Busy is way overrated and under pressure is just a sure way to the graveside sooner than necessary. How about a little rest in your life? No one talks about rest in any significant way. We talk about sleep, and that is all fine and good but rest is different than sleep. Sleep is a superpower, energizing your life in ways nothing else can - you cannot live without sleep. Rest however, makes the life you have so much more enjoyable. Rest creates space in your life so that you aren’t incessantly running from one task to the next, so that you aren’t jamming every possible event and experience into every single second of every single day. It creates a space where you can take off your watch, lay down your phone, sideline each worry and concern, be careless and reckless with schedules and productivity and tasks. Rest is the pressure-relief valve.

When I was a kid, my mom had a pressure cooker. A loud obnoxious pot that was akin to a steam locomotive, because of the pop pop pop pop sound that it made, and the actual steam coming out of the spout at the top. That spout was the pressure relief valve making sure things didn’t explode from the pressure inside the pot. Rest. The same thing in your life. You need something to let the pressure off. To kick off your mental shoes and lay down on the beach and enjoy the moment. Rest is your beach trip, your book that you reading, your power nap, your mani-pedi, your cigar at the end of the day, your cold one, playing with your band, going for a walk, getting a hug from your granddaughter or grandson, a hockey game, anything that breaks the power of busy over you.