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non-boring ways to rest during the holidays
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The most underused, chemical-free, safe and effective therapy available for entrepreneurs This is my last newsletter of the year. My team and I have been strategizing our winter break since September, and planning projects around everyone’s holiday schedules. Three days to go, and I’m off until January. Three blissful weeks of laying by the fireplace reading books like Midnight At The Christmas Bookshop and Shopaholic Christmas, eating entire boxes of clementines all by myself, and shredding what limited powder we get here in Southern Ontario ⛷️. It’s been quite a year, holy moley. I’m sooo ready to start winter break. And I’m not the only one who feels like they’re crawling toward the finish line. Many of my clients are saying, “I’ve got about thirty minutes of productivity daily, I think there might be something clinically wrong with me.” Not because business is bad - some of my mastermind members have had their most profitable years ever, including one member whose revenue is up just shy of 100%. Our revenue is up a bit too. ...but everyone I know is so tired and ready to say “buh-bye” to 2025, and “hello” to an extended egg nog season. This is your friendly reminder, as we head into the holiday season, to get very intentional about rest. You were not built to be a factory of non-stop productivity. No matter what size business you have (even if it’s imaginary at this point), the Reader factory cannot stay open 24/7/365. If you’re inexplicably tired like me, if your productivity is slower than old molasses, if (especially if!) you feel anxious and like you can’t actually afford to rest, you are most likely suffering from a “rest deficit." In Dr. Saundra Daulton-Smith’s TedTalk The real reason why we are tired and what to do about it, she says, of our rest-averse world… “The result is a culture of high-achieving, high-producing, chronically-tired, burned out individuals. Many of us are suffering from a rest-deficit because we do not understand the power of rest. Rest is the most underused, chemical-free, safe and effective therapy available to us.” I challenge you, instead of blowing past this email and tackling the next thing on your to-do list, to take a second and add three (yes, three!) intentional rest options to your holiday schedule. Here are some ideas you can steal from me, which are based on the seven types of rest outlined in Dr. Daulton-Smith’s TedTalk: Social Rest 💇🏼♂️ asking my barber for a no-talking haircut Sensory Rest ❄️ shoveling my driveway without earbuds in Spiritual Rest 👥 going to an al-anon meeting for people who’ve experienced loss Physical Rest ⛷️ hitting the slopes solo — two birds, one seed ‘cuz it’s social rest, too! Creative Rest 🎲 hosting a family game of Texas Hold-Em Mental Rest 📚 reading paperbacks with “Christmas” in the title Emotional Rest 🗞️ taking time off reading the news If you want to go deeper on this topic, you need to subscribe to Maegen Megginson’s Deeply Rested newsletter and podcast of the same name. Maegan tuned me into the idea that rest can include a lot of things that aren’t “sit quietly and do nothing.” Thank God, because that is not within my skillset. If it would be helpful, hit “reply” and tell me one restful thing you do that doesn’t quite fall into the category of rest but truly nourishes you. That’s a wrap on 2025! Back in your inbox in January. I would love to end this email more gracefully but unfortunately I’ve used up my annual allotment of graceful endings. Wishing you peace and rest this holiday season, Tarzan
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