I’m writing this on a Sunday and I thought it would be relevant to share as you head into your weekend.

Because I’m curious if you’ve ever found it difficult to shut off?

Maybe it happens for you all the time or maybe it only happens when you’re under stress.

Whether that stress is positive like working on landing a big client or negative like finding yourself in a sales drought and stressing over making a sale.

You find yourself thinking about it (whatever it is) at all hours of the day. When you wake up, at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. While spending time with colleagues and while with your family.

All you can think about is it.

Or you may be an entrepreneur like me, and find it hard to shut off at all.

You’re always on. Always thinking, wondering, scheming.

You’re constantly looking for ways to standardize parts of the business, uncover inefficiencies and optimize them, streamline communications, and on and on.

But, we have to learn how to shut things off. If not for ourselves then for our family and our loved ones.

For most people, they have to work their work muscle to strengthen it so they can turn it on when they go to work.

But we’re the opposite.

We have to work the muscle that allows us to turn it off, so we can be present when others are around.

It’s a learned skill, and admittedly, it’s one I’m still working on.

Not because it’s something I cannot do, but because I’m a bit of a workaholic.

I like it. No, it’s more that I love it! Because to me it’s not work. It’s fun!

I just love working, creating, and finding new ways to impact people's lives, and improve the lives of my clients.

But I’ve learned that taking one day a week, and shutting it down. No work related phone, text, email, planning, scheming, etc is allowed.

I force myself to shut it down, to reboot, and recharge.

It’s done wonders for me, and my family really seems to appreciate it. My wife and daughter especially!

So if you’re a go, go, go kind of person, do yourself a favor. Learn to take a break. Learn how to turn your work brain off for a time. Focus it on something else - time with family, a good book, practicing something like martial arts, an instrument, meditation.

That way you can work your presence muscle as I like to call it, so when the time comes that you really need it, you can flex it, be present, and make sure your loved ones know you truly care.

​So take some time this weekend, work that muscle, and then… get back to work!

Death - Before - Dishonor

To your success,

Nate

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