February 18, 2025 • 23 mins
Are you caught in the relentless cycle of overworking and under-living? In today's of Big Goal Energy, I challenge the pervasive myth that rest is a sign of weakness and reveal why it's actually a powerful strategy for sustainable success.
Drawing from personal experiences and observations, I explore the origins of hustle culture and its detrimental effects on our well-being and productivity. You'll discover why pushing yourself to the brink isn't just ineffective—it's counterproductive to your long-term goals.
If you're ready to break free from the shackles of hustle culture and achieve your audacious goals without sacrificing your well-being, this episode is your wake-up call. It's time to redefine what it means to have Big Goal Energy and create a sustainable path to success.
Are you prepared to make rest your secret weapon? Tune in and let's defy the reality that success demands constant sacrifice.
Drawing from personal experiences and observations, I explore the origins of hustle culture and its detrimental effects on our well-being and productivity. You'll discover why pushing yourself to the brink isn't just ineffective—it's counterproductive to your long-term goals.
If you're ready to break free from the shackles of hustle culture and achieve your audacious goals without sacrificing your well-being, this episode is your wake-up call. It's time to redefine what it means to have Big Goal Energy and create a sustainable path to success.
Are you prepared to make rest your secret weapon? Tune in and let's defy the reality that success demands constant sacrifice.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rest is not a luxury, nor is it laziness. It
is actually a necessity. Yet we live in a world
that is absolutely obsessed with the hustle and the grind,
and we have been talked quick rest with weakness. Today,
in this episode of Big Goal Energy, we're going to
uncover the truth. Rest is actually a power move and
(00:21):
it is the secret to sustainable success, strength and growth.
When we are at a point in our lives when
we choose to overwork and underlive, we get trapped in
this really dangerous cycle, one where our value becomes tied
to our productivity and our busyness. So if we want
to feel more valued, what do we have to do.
(00:41):
We have to work more and we have to live less.
While the hustle might make us feel accomplished in the
short term, in the long term, in the big picture,
it really robs us of our fulfillment, our joy, and
ultimately our ability to perform at our best peak performance levels.
We end up sacrificing the things that matter the most
(01:02):
to us, things like our health, relationships, sense of self,
all in the name in the pursuit of doing more.
In today's episode, we're going to break down what the
hustle culture is where it originated from, why it's killing
all of us. I'm gonna share a story with you
of a woman I used to work out next to
(01:23):
it orange theory fitness. This woman would run hard, she
would set her treadmill the highest incline, the fastest speed,
she would skip every rest, and she refused to stretch
or cool down at the end of her workouts. Now,
on the surface, it looked like she was giving it
her all, that she was accomplishing so much. But what
(01:44):
she didn't realize was that by avoiding her rest, she
was actually holding herself back from her fitness goals. So
today we're going to uncover how rest is not a
sign of weakness. It is an investment in our long
term growth, whether that in our growth in our physical bodies,
our work, our life, whatever, rest is a non negotiable priority.
(02:09):
Welcome to Big Goal Energy. I am so glad you're here.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I can tell you've got big Goal energy.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Are you ready to turn your wildest dreams into your
everyday reality.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You are in the right place.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Welcome to Big Goal Energy, the podcast that helps you
turn your audacious and delusional dreams into your everyday life.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We know that you don't settle for the ordinary.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
That you have dreams which others may deem unrealistic. But
here we help you defy reality and bring.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Those dreams to life.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Each episode of Big Goal Energy empowers you with knowledge, inspiration,
and mentorship to conquer your most unrealistic goals. From transparent,
roundtable conversations to short form episodes, you'll hear the experiences
of women who have defied reality, as well as learned
practical tips and strategies to fuel your journey. Join us
by subscribing to Big Goal Energy, and together we'll turn
(02:58):
your audacious dream into remarkable achievements. Hello, Hello, Brie. Seely here.
Today's episode feels very near and dear to my heart
because while I have been a hustler for many, many,
many years, I have also been a dedicated napper since
(03:20):
a very young age. There it's actually funny. There is
a book I believe that's called like Sleep Your Way
to the Top, and the idea is how do you
nap your way into success? Now, we're not going to
go that far off the rails, but we are going
to spend this episode just kind of really uncovering the
roots of the hustle culture and talking about the importance
(03:44):
of rest and recovery. My hope for you at the
end of this is that you're able to have a
little more compassion for yourself, that you're able to understand
why building rest into your days and into your weeks
is actually going to help you be more successful. Let's
dive into kind of like the origins of hustle culture
(04:05):
and how it has conditioned us to prioritize our productivity
over our well be Now these are just my own
personal theories, but I believe that the hustle culture really
originates from the Industrial Revolution. Back in the Industrial Revolution,
you had to work very, very hard. The majority of
work out there was skilled labor. In order for you
(04:28):
to get paid, you had to be putting forth your
energy and effort. You had to be executing your skilled
labor in order to make money. So if you wanted
to make more money, if you wanted to bring in
more value, what did you have to do. You had
to work more, you had to work harder, you had
to sacrifice your well being to prioritize getting shit done.
(04:52):
Now we are currently no longer in the Industrial Revolution.
I think people have been calling this like the I
don't know information era or something like that, where it's
more of our minds that bring us value. It's more
of our ideas. You've heard of leadership people. I mean
(05:13):
the majority of my clients are service providers, things like that.
It's like your worth and your value is no longer
dictated by how hard you work, but rather how smart
can you be, how effective can you be with your
time and energy to be creating this value in the
world that ultimately pays you. Right, It's like we've transitioned
(05:36):
into a new era, but we've been indoctrinated into these
ideas of productivity, of working hard, of the hustle of
the grind. So we're still practicing and embodying and living
that hustle grind productivity, but we're not living in that
era anymore. We're living in a new era. Super easy
(05:57):
illustration of this. When I was in my fashion brand,
productivity was the name of the game. I was physically
having to produce items for sale. The more I could produce,
the more money I could bring in. Now I'm working smarter.
I'm taking my products and turning them into digitized versions
(06:22):
of themselves so that you can enjoy them over and
over and over and over and over again without me
having to put in more hours. I run masterminds so
that I can impact ten individuals at a time, rather
than working individually with each of those ten people. This
is the difference in the eras. And you can see
how hustling and grinding kind of has to happen when
(06:46):
you are producing a physical product, or when you are
producing something physical into the world. If we are, say
in more of the consulting roles or the thought leadership
rules or things like that, but that's no longer our life,
that's no longer our story. And yet we're still living
by that. So we all know that overworking ends up
(07:09):
leading us to physical, mental, and emotional burn up. Do
I need to extrapolate on that. I don't think I
need to extrapolate on that. We all know that if
we are overworking and underliving, it's like we're asking our
vehicle to perform past its ability to hold fuel. How
about you, I'm not interested. I'm not interested in that reality.
(07:29):
Let's talk about now the importance of rest and recovery.
As I mentioned in the introduction, I worked out for
a while here in Tulsa next to this woman at
Orange Theory Fitness. I also happen to know the coach
at Orange Theory Fitness, and not only did I observe this,
the coach would talk to me about how frustrating it
was for her because she knew exactly what was happening
(07:52):
to this woman who was not allowing herself to rest,
she was not allowing her body to recover, and she
would talk to her about it, and she would say, Hey,
it's really, really, really important that you don't just like
run hard for the entire hour that we are here
at the gym. And also if that's what you want
to do, like just go fucking run outside, Like why
(08:13):
are you coming to Orange Theory if you're not doing
the rower and you're not doing the weightlifting anyways, that's
neither here nor there. So this woman would basically the
epitome of hustle and grind through the entire workout. She
refused to let herself rest. I looked up I googled
this morning. I have it here in front of me.
I'm gonna read it to you. What happens if you
(08:35):
don't take rest when you're exercising. We all know that
if we're say you know, running hard, we need to rest,
We need to like take a walking break, or we
at least need to diminish our incline and run a
little slower. And that's the whole thing about orange theory
is it's like, I forget exactly what they're called that
they're like blocks of you go really hard and then
you slow down a little bit, and you go really
(08:55):
hard and you slow down a little bit. If you
don't either rest during your workout. This also comes up
to if you're weightlifting, you don't just want to spend
an hour straight up lifting the same thing in the
same motion the entire hour. First of all, you want
to vary your exercises, and second you want to do
a set and then rest, and do another set and
(09:16):
then rest. This is a very well known practice with
working out right. What happens if you don't either rest
during your workout or if you don't take rest days well,
it leads to physical and mental exhaustion, which leads to injury,
so you could have an overuse injury. It can create
micro tears in your muscles, which rest actually allows those
(09:41):
microtears to repair themselves. But if you're not resting, you're
just re tearing the muscle over and over and over
and over and over again without actually allowing itself. The
way that muscles grow is that they tear a little
bit and then they repair themselves. And they tear a
little bit and repair themselves. That's how muscle mass actually grows.
Without that rest, there's not the repair thing. It says.
(10:05):
You can have depleted glycogen. You can have higher blood pressure,
higher blood sugar. You can have mood swings, mental exhaustion,
poor sleep quality, decreased immunity, chronic fatigue, anxiety, reduced endurance,
slower reaction times, and poor agility. And then there's another
article on women's health that said I stopped taking rest
(10:27):
days and they proved how important they were. And one
of the things that she says in this is avoiding
rest days will actually cancel out the workouts you do.
You are likely to have fewer effective workouts if you
don't rest. Are you an entrepreneur with a bigger vision
(10:50):
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(11:12):
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(11:36):
this into your business, your work, your creativity. If you're
just trying to go hard and go hard, and go
hard and go hard and go hard, your output is
actually going to be ineffective. Your creativity is gonna get worse,
your work product is gonna get worse. You're not going
to be able to sustain the output. You're gonna have
(11:59):
chronic fatigue. You might be more and more and more
and more anxious. Look at why you're already overworking. It
probably stems from some sort of scarcity. There aren't enough
hours in the day, I don't have enough clients. I'm
not making enough money. Now imagine adding chronic fatigue, anxiety,
slow reaction times onto that. Do I really need to
(12:23):
illustrate for you how incredibly important rest is?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Now?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Instead, Let's say, Okay, I put out forty five minutes
of such hard work and my brain is like, girl,
I'm done, which my brain does often. Now, if I
were to keep going, imagine the work quality that stems
from that, right versus what would happen if I stepped
outside the door of the breech shed, walked over to
our little fire pit with my water, sit in the sun,
(12:52):
take some deep, full body nourishing breaths, let the sun
warm my skin, hydrate myself, really just ground my energy,
relax my body, let my brain decompress a little bit,
and then go back to work. What's the output going
to look like from that place? It's a completely different ballgame.
(13:15):
If I were to keep pushing and just trying to
like ring every last thought out of my head, every
last action, activity, whatever, out of my head, the output
is going to be shit. I want to invite you
and really challenge you to look at this narrative that
rest is laziness, that rest is a sign of weakness,
(13:36):
and start reimagining for yourself the exponential impact that rest
can actually have on not only your business but also yourself. Like,
imagine getting to the end of the day. I know
I've done this for so long, where I'll work like
twelve hour days, burning the candle from all of the ends,
(13:58):
and then I get in side, I barely eat dinner,
I sit on the couch and I pass out. How
is that benefiting me? How is that benefiting anyone? Is
that truly laziness? Or is that an ineffective way to operate? Instead?
Like I mentioned, one of my favorite tools is integrating
(14:19):
rest into my everyday cadence, and my favorite way to
do this is the Pomodoro method. Now, if you have
never heard of this, or if you've never heard me
talk about it before, get ready. The first thing I
want you to do. You have two options. You can
either download a Palmodaro app on your cell phone or
my favorite, I'm actually gonna grab mine from my desk here,
(14:43):
super simple egg timer. They have these at any anal
grocery stores. You can find it at Target. Very very
very easy to come by. In fact, I think we
have three in my household. One is shaped as a
chicken because my mom got it for me. With the
Palmadaro technique. There are several things I love about it.
The first thing that I love about it is you
(15:04):
set your intention for that work block. So you're breaking
your entire day into blocks. You set your intention for
that work block, and you say, here's what I'm going
to focus on during this work block. When I do that,
I find that during that work block, if my mind
wants to squirrel somewhere else, I immediately catch myself and
I'm like, Nope, that's not for right now. We're focused
(15:26):
on this during this work block. If it's not this,
we're not focused on it. Period. So it helps me,
first of all, eliminate a lot of distractions, because if
it's not what I'm focused on, I'm not doing. That's
the first thing I love about it. Second thing is
then you set your timer. There's varying methodologies about this
that a twenty five minute time block is the most
(15:47):
effective or a forty five minute time block is the
most effective. I tend towards forty five minute time blocks
because then it breaks my day into our long chunks.
I set my alarm for forty five minutes, and I
give myself that time to focus on whatever I just
set my intention for. I'm focused on this thing, I
give myself forty five minutes to work on it. And
then when the timer goes off, I take a break,
(16:09):
and generally it's about like a five to seven minute break.
I run inside the house, use the restroom, refill my water,
get a cup of tea, check my text messages, whatever. Right,
I just take a break. I go put my feet
in the grass, I get some sun, some vitamin D, whatever.
Then I come back and I sit down, and I
(16:30):
give myself another few minutes to set my intention for
the next work block. It might be that I'm doing
a similar thing right now. I'm in the process of
updating my website, but I want to encourage if you're
gonna do this, your intentions shouldn't be update my website. Mine.
I get micro with my intentions, write the copy for
(16:50):
my homepage. That's my focus for this work block. So
if that's my focus for my first work block and
I get that done in forty five minutes, then my
focus for the second work block, even if it's the
same project, is update my word press with my new
copy for my website or whatever. Set the alarm for
forty five minutes, Go take a break, five to seven minutes,
(17:12):
come back renewed, set another intention. Awesome, got those two
focuses out of the way. Now, let's rewrite the copy
for my services page forty five minutes blah blah blah
blah blah. So what this does is it creates blocks
during your day where you are giving your mind and
giving your body the ability to go into recovery. I
(17:35):
don't know if you know. There's varying degrees of information online,
but a brain can only focus something say for sixty
to ninety minutes at a time, other things say between
four and five hours total for a total day. So
if your brain can only focus for sixty to ninety
minutes at a time, why are you building four hour
(17:56):
work blocks into your day. If you can't focus, if
you're mentally overloaded and mentally overwhelmed, you're depleted from energy. Again,
you're not going to be able to put out your
best work. This Pomodoro technique really truly helps create kind
of like a rhythm and a cadence to support you
so that you are getting focus work done. And it's
(18:20):
actually a higher quality focused work because also built rest
into your work schedule. Some other things you can do
to help yourself add more rest into your days into
your weeks is, first off, scheduling downtime into your calendar. Personally,
I don't step into my laptop until nine am my downtime.
(18:44):
A lot of my downtime happens before nine am, where
I'm doing things like journaling, or meditating or just breathing,
really filling myself up and getting my brain ready to
work for the day. I also started taking off Friday afternoons,
which are creativity blocks for me. Starts with book club
and then I go on some sort of date with
(19:07):
myself that is a nowhere creative activity date to just
really truly help me recenter and recalibrate myself. The other
thing you can practice is one of my favorite words
in the whole wide world, no learning to say no
to over commitments, learning to say no to things that
are not aligned for you. And last, but not least,
(19:28):
kind of like I mentioned with my downtime, really practicing
mindfulness and other restorative activities. They're going to help your
brain first of all, switch between the right and left hemispheres,
but also just really disconnect. I want to encourage you
to reflect on these areas where you're overworking and identify
ways and methods that are going to work for you
(19:51):
to shift. Now you know me. You know that I
will tell everyone this is not a blanket one size
fits all experien what's gonna work for you to shift
this is not what works for me to shift this,
or what works for another person listening to this is
not gonna work for you to shift this, right, So
give your self permission to also play with this. Say okay,
(20:14):
for this week, I'm gonna test out this Palmodoro thing
that Breeze swears by. At the end of this week,
assess did it work for you or did it not?
Did you find yourself having more mental energy? Did you
find yourself having more capacity? If so, great, do it
next week. If not, do you need shorter workblocks? Do
you need longer workblocks? Do the workblocks just not work
(20:37):
for you? And you just need to schedule downtime into
your calendar. Your cadence and your flow is yours. It's
up to you to be the one to find what
works for you. Before we wrap today, I just want
to say one more time, rest is not laziness. Rest
is actually a huge fucking power or move. Rest is
(21:02):
what is gonna help you sustain your success. I really
want to encourage all of you to assess your rest
habits and really prioritize your recovery this week. In fact,
I kind of challenge you. I want you to make
a commitment to yourself to prioritize your recovery this week
(21:23):
while also yes, absolutely get shit done.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
We have big goals. We have big goals. They're gonna
get built, but also they don't need to get built
at the sacrifice of ourselves. So I want to challenge
you to find ways to really prioritize your recovery this week.
What does that mean? What does that look like to you?
How do you dismantle these stories we have in our
(21:48):
minds that rest is laziness and rest is weakness. I
really want to invite you to share your reflections on
this and your rest strategies on social media or feel
free to yum me. You can find me on Instagram
at Breciily. I just want to say thank you so
much for trusting me with your ambition and trusting me
(22:09):
with your big, big visions, and trusting me when I
come on here and say crazy things like girl, you
need to nap more. Stop getting so much shit done
in a day, and like nap more. I know it
seems counterintuitive, but trust me, I have been an expert
like I have what's above a PhD? Is there anything
above a PhD? Whatever it is, I have one of
(22:30):
those in napping. And let me tell you, best investment
I've ever made in my life is resting. It is resting.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for joining me on
this episode of Big Goal Energy. I am so grateful
you're here. I need one more quick favor of you
before we wrap. If this resonated with you, please send
it to two or three women that you know would
(22:52):
really benefit from this, Women that you know work really
fucking hard that need to incorporate more rest into their
days and into their lives. And of course don't forget
to subscribe. I will see you on next week's episode.
Thank you again so much for joining me. Thank you
for joining us on this episode of Big Goal Energy.
We trust that it fueled your ambition and made you
(23:14):
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like you. Come join us in the Big Goal Energy
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Speaker 2 (23:27):
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Speaker 1 (23:30):
Together We'll turn your audacious dreams into remarkable achievements.
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Cheers to defying reality. See you on the next episode.
Rest is not a luxury, nor is it laziness. It
is actually a necessity. Yet we live in a world
that is absolutely obsessed with the hustle and the grind,
and we have been talked quick rest with weakness. Today,
in this episode of Big Goal Energy, we're going to
uncover the truth. Rest is actually a power move and
(00:21):
it is the secret to sustainable success, strength and growth.
When we are at a point in our lives when
we choose to overwork and underlive, we get trapped in
this really dangerous cycle, one where our value becomes tied
to our productivity and our busyness. So if we want
to feel more valued, what do we have to do.
(00:41):
We have to work more and we have to live less.
While the hustle might make us feel accomplished in the
short term, in the long term, in the big picture,
it really robs us of our fulfillment, our joy, and
ultimately our ability to perform at our best peak performance levels.
We end up sacrificing the things that matter the most
(01:02):
to us, things like our health, relationships, sense of self,
all in the name in the pursuit of doing more.
In today's episode, we're going to break down what the
hustle culture is where it originated from, why it's killing
all of us. I'm gonna share a story with you
of a woman I used to work out next to
(01:23):
it orange theory fitness. This woman would run hard, she
would set her treadmill the highest incline, the fastest speed,
she would skip every rest, and she refused to stretch
or cool down at the end of her workouts. Now,
on the surface, it looked like she was giving it
her all, that she was accomplishing so much. But what
(01:44):
she didn't realize was that by avoiding her rest, she
was actually holding herself back from her fitness goals. So
today we're going to uncover how rest is not a
sign of weakness. It is an investment in our long
term growth, whether that in our growth in our physical bodies,
our work, our life, whatever, rest is a non negotiable priority.
(02:09):
Welcome to Big Goal Energy. I am so glad you're here.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I can tell you've got big Goal energy.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Are you ready to turn your wildest dreams into your
everyday reality.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You are in the right place.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Welcome to Big Goal Energy, the podcast that helps you
turn your audacious and delusional dreams into your everyday life.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We know that you don't settle for the ordinary.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
That you have dreams which others may deem unrealistic. But
here we help you defy reality and bring.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Those dreams to life.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Each episode of Big Goal Energy empowers you with knowledge, inspiration,
and mentorship to conquer your most unrealistic goals. From transparent,
roundtable conversations to short form episodes, you'll hear the experiences
of women who have defied reality, as well as learned
practical tips and strategies to fuel your journey. Join us
by subscribing to Big Goal Energy, and together we'll turn
(02:58):
your audacious dream into remarkable achievements. Hello, Hello, Brie. Seely here.
Today's episode feels very near and dear to my heart
because while I have been a hustler for many, many,
many years, I have also been a dedicated napper since
(03:20):
a very young age. There it's actually funny. There is
a book I believe that's called like Sleep Your Way
to the Top, and the idea is how do you
nap your way into success? Now, we're not going to
go that far off the rails, but we are going
to spend this episode just kind of really uncovering the
roots of the hustle culture and talking about the importance
(03:44):
of rest and recovery. My hope for you at the
end of this is that you're able to have a
little more compassion for yourself, that you're able to understand
why building rest into your days and into your weeks
is actually going to help you be more successful. Let's
dive into kind of like the origins of hustle culture
(04:05):
and how it has conditioned us to prioritize our productivity
over our well be Now these are just my own
personal theories, but I believe that the hustle culture really
originates from the Industrial Revolution. Back in the Industrial Revolution,
you had to work very, very hard. The majority of
work out there was skilled labor. In order for you
(04:28):
to get paid, you had to be putting forth your
energy and effort. You had to be executing your skilled
labor in order to make money. So if you wanted
to make more money, if you wanted to bring in
more value, what did you have to do. You had
to work more, you had to work harder, you had
to sacrifice your well being to prioritize getting shit done.
(04:52):
Now we are currently no longer in the Industrial Revolution.
I think people have been calling this like the I
don't know information era or something like that, where it's
more of our minds that bring us value. It's more
of our ideas. You've heard of leadership people. I mean
(05:13):
the majority of my clients are service providers, things like that.
It's like your worth and your value is no longer
dictated by how hard you work, but rather how smart
can you be, how effective can you be with your
time and energy to be creating this value in the
world that ultimately pays you. Right, It's like we've transitioned
(05:36):
into a new era, but we've been indoctrinated into these
ideas of productivity, of working hard, of the hustle of
the grind. So we're still practicing and embodying and living
that hustle grind productivity, but we're not living in that
era anymore. We're living in a new era. Super easy
(05:57):
illustration of this. When I was in my fashion brand,
productivity was the name of the game. I was physically
having to produce items for sale. The more I could produce,
the more money I could bring in. Now I'm working smarter.
I'm taking my products and turning them into digitized versions
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of themselves so that you can enjoy them over and
over and over and over and over again without me
having to put in more hours. I run masterminds so
that I can impact ten individuals at a time, rather
than working individually with each of those ten people. This
is the difference in the eras. And you can see
how hustling and grinding kind of has to happen when
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you are producing a physical product, or when you are
producing something physical into the world. If we are, say
in more of the consulting roles or the thought leadership
rules or things like that, but that's no longer our life,
that's no longer our story. And yet we're still living
by that. So we all know that overworking ends up
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leading us to physical, mental, and emotional burn up. Do
I need to extrapolate on that. I don't think I
need to extrapolate on that. We all know that if
we are overworking and underliving, it's like we're asking our
vehicle to perform past its ability to hold fuel. How
about you, I'm not interested. I'm not interested in that reality.
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Let's talk about now the importance of rest and recovery.
As I mentioned in the introduction, I worked out for
a while here in Tulsa next to this woman at
Orange Theory Fitness. I also happen to know the coach
at Orange Theory Fitness, and not only did I observe this,
the coach would talk to me about how frustrating it
was for her because she knew exactly what was happening
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to this woman who was not allowing herself to rest,
she was not allowing her body to recover, and she
would talk to her about it, and she would say, Hey,
it's really, really, really important that you don't just like
run hard for the entire hour that we are here
at the gym. And also if that's what you want
to do, like just go fucking run outside, Like why
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are you coming to Orange Theory if you're not doing
the rower and you're not doing the weightlifting anyways, that's
neither here nor there. So this woman would basically the
epitome of hustle and grind through the entire workout. She
refused to let herself rest. I looked up I googled
this morning. I have it here in front of me.
I'm gonna read it to you. What happens if you
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don't take rest when you're exercising. We all know that
if we're say you know, running hard, we need to rest,
We need to like take a walking break, or we
at least need to diminish our incline and run a
little slower. And that's the whole thing about orange theory
is it's like, I forget exactly what they're called that
they're like blocks of you go really hard and then
you slow down a little bit, and you go really
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hard and you slow down a little bit. If you
don't either rest during your workout. This also comes up
to if you're weightlifting, you don't just want to spend
an hour straight up lifting the same thing in the
same motion the entire hour. First of all, you want
to vary your exercises, and second you want to do
a set and then rest, and do another set and
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then rest. This is a very well known practice with
working out right. What happens if you don't either rest
during your workout or if you don't take rest days well,
it leads to physical and mental exhaustion, which leads to injury,
so you could have an overuse injury. It can create
micro tears in your muscles, which rest actually allows those
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microtears to repair themselves. But if you're not resting, you're
just re tearing the muscle over and over and over
and over and over again without actually allowing itself. The
way that muscles grow is that they tear a little
bit and then they repair themselves. And they tear a
little bit and repair themselves. That's how muscle mass actually grows.
Without that rest, there's not the repair thing. It says.
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You can have depleted glycogen. You can have higher blood pressure,
higher blood sugar. You can have mood swings, mental exhaustion,
poor sleep quality, decreased immunity, chronic fatigue, anxiety, reduced endurance,
slower reaction times, and poor agility. And then there's another
article on women's health that said I stopped taking rest
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days and they proved how important they were. And one
of the things that she says in this is avoiding
rest days will actually cancel out the workouts you do.
You are likely to have fewer effective workouts if you
don't rest. Are you an entrepreneur with a bigger vision
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this into your business, your work, your creativity. If you're
just trying to go hard and go hard, and go
hard and go hard and go hard, your output is
actually going to be ineffective. Your creativity is gonna get worse,
your work product is gonna get worse. You're not going
to be able to sustain the output. You're gonna have
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chronic fatigue. You might be more and more and more
and more anxious. Look at why you're already overworking. It
probably stems from some sort of scarcity. There aren't enough
hours in the day, I don't have enough clients. I'm
not making enough money. Now imagine adding chronic fatigue, anxiety,
slow reaction times onto that. Do I really need to
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illustrate for you how incredibly important rest is?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Now?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Instead, Let's say, Okay, I put out forty five minutes
of such hard work and my brain is like, girl,
I'm done, which my brain does often. Now, if I
were to keep going, imagine the work quality that stems
from that, right versus what would happen if I stepped
outside the door of the breech shed, walked over to
our little fire pit with my water, sit in the sun,
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take some deep, full body nourishing breaths, let the sun
warm my skin, hydrate myself, really just ground my energy,
relax my body, let my brain decompress a little bit,
and then go back to work. What's the output going
to look like from that place? It's a completely different ballgame.
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If I were to keep pushing and just trying to
like ring every last thought out of my head, every
last action, activity, whatever, out of my head, the output
is going to be shit. I want to invite you
and really challenge you to look at this narrative that
rest is laziness, that rest is a sign of weakness,
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and start reimagining for yourself the exponential impact that rest
can actually have on not only your business but also yourself. Like,
imagine getting to the end of the day. I know
I've done this for so long, where I'll work like
twelve hour days, burning the candle from all of the ends,
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and then I get in side, I barely eat dinner,
I sit on the couch and I pass out. How
is that benefiting me? How is that benefiting anyone? Is
that truly laziness? Or is that an ineffective way to operate? Instead?
Like I mentioned, one of my favorite tools is integrating
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rest into my everyday cadence, and my favorite way to
do this is the Pomodoro method. Now, if you have
never heard of this, or if you've never heard me
talk about it before, get ready. The first thing I
want you to do. You have two options. You can
either download a Palmodaro app on your cell phone or
my favorite, I'm actually gonna grab mine from my desk here,
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super simple egg timer. They have these at any anal
grocery stores. You can find it at Target. Very very
very easy to come by. In fact, I think we
have three in my household. One is shaped as a
chicken because my mom got it for me. With the
Palmadaro technique. There are several things I love about it.
The first thing that I love about it is you
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set your intention for that work block. So you're breaking
your entire day into blocks. You set your intention for
that work block, and you say, here's what I'm going
to focus on during this work block. When I do that,
I find that during that work block, if my mind
wants to squirrel somewhere else, I immediately catch myself and
I'm like, Nope, that's not for right now. We're focused
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on this during this work block. If it's not this,
we're not focused on it. Period. So it helps me,
first of all, eliminate a lot of distractions, because if
it's not what I'm focused on, I'm not doing. That's
the first thing I love about it. Second thing is
then you set your timer. There's varying methodologies about this
that a twenty five minute time block is the most
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effective or a forty five minute time block is the
most effective. I tend towards forty five minute time blocks
because then it breaks my day into our long chunks.
I set my alarm for forty five minutes, and I
give myself that time to focus on whatever I just
set my intention for. I'm focused on this thing, I
give myself forty five minutes to work on it. And
then when the timer goes off, I take a break,
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and generally it's about like a five to seven minute break.
I run inside the house, use the restroom, refill my water,
get a cup of tea, check my text messages, whatever. Right,
I just take a break. I go put my feet
in the grass, I get some sun, some vitamin D, whatever.
Then I come back and I sit down, and I
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give myself another few minutes to set my intention for
the next work block. It might be that I'm doing
a similar thing right now. I'm in the process of
updating my website, but I want to encourage if you're
gonna do this, your intentions shouldn't be update my website. Mine.
I get micro with my intentions, write the copy for
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my homepage. That's my focus for this work block. So
if that's my focus for my first work block and
I get that done in forty five minutes, then my
focus for the second work block, even if it's the
same project, is update my word press with my new
copy for my website or whatever. Set the alarm for
forty five minutes, Go take a break, five to seven minutes,
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come back renewed, set another intention. Awesome, got those two
focuses out of the way. Now, let's rewrite the copy
for my services page forty five minutes blah blah blah
blah blah. So what this does is it creates blocks
during your day where you are giving your mind and
giving your body the ability to go into recovery. I
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don't know if you know. There's varying degrees of information online,
but a brain can only focus something say for sixty
to ninety minutes at a time, other things say between
four and five hours total for a total day. So
if your brain can only focus for sixty to ninety
minutes at a time, why are you building four hour
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work blocks into your day. If you can't focus, if
you're mentally overloaded and mentally overwhelmed, you're depleted from energy. Again,
you're not going to be able to put out your
best work. This Pomodoro technique really truly helps create kind
of like a rhythm and a cadence to support you
so that you are getting focus work done. And it's
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actually a higher quality focused work because also built rest
into your work schedule. Some other things you can do
to help yourself add more rest into your days into
your weeks is, first off, scheduling downtime into your calendar. Personally,
I don't step into my laptop until nine am my downtime.
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A lot of my downtime happens before nine am, where
I'm doing things like journaling, or meditating or just breathing,
really filling myself up and getting my brain ready to
work for the day. I also started taking off Friday afternoons,
which are creativity blocks for me. Starts with book club
and then I go on some sort of date with
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myself that is a nowhere creative activity date to just
really truly help me recenter and recalibrate myself. The other
thing you can practice is one of my favorite words
in the whole wide world, no learning to say no
to over commitments, learning to say no to things that
are not aligned for you. And last, but not least,
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kind of like I mentioned with my downtime, really practicing
mindfulness and other restorative activities. They're going to help your
brain first of all, switch between the right and left hemispheres,
but also just really disconnect. I want to encourage you
to reflect on these areas where you're overworking and identify
ways and methods that are going to work for you
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to shift. Now you know me. You know that I
will tell everyone this is not a blanket one size
fits all experien what's gonna work for you to shift
this is not what works for me to shift this,
or what works for another person listening to this is
not gonna work for you to shift this, right, So
give your self permission to also play with this. Say okay,
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for this week, I'm gonna test out this Palmodoro thing
that Breeze swears by. At the end of this week,
assess did it work for you or did it not?
Did you find yourself having more mental energy? Did you
find yourself having more capacity? If so, great, do it
next week. If not, do you need shorter workblocks? Do
you need longer workblocks? Do the workblocks just not work
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for you? And you just need to schedule downtime into
your calendar. Your cadence and your flow is yours. It's
up to you to be the one to find what
works for you. Before we wrap today, I just want
to say one more time, rest is not laziness. Rest
is actually a huge fucking power or move. Rest is
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what is gonna help you sustain your success. I really
want to encourage all of you to assess your rest
habits and really prioritize your recovery this week. In fact,
I kind of challenge you. I want you to make
a commitment to yourself to prioritize your recovery this week
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while also yes, absolutely get shit done.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
We have big goals. We have big goals. They're gonna
get built, but also they don't need to get built
at the sacrifice of ourselves. So I want to challenge
you to find ways to really prioritize your recovery this week.
What does that mean? What does that look like to you?
How do you dismantle these stories we have in our
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minds that rest is laziness and rest is weakness. I
really want to invite you to share your reflections on
this and your rest strategies on social media or feel
free to yum me. You can find me on Instagram
at Breciily. I just want to say thank you so
much for trusting me with your ambition and trusting me
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with your big, big visions, and trusting me when I
come on here and say crazy things like girl, you
need to nap more. Stop getting so much shit done
in a day, and like nap more. I know it
seems counterintuitive, but trust me, I have been an expert
like I have what's above a PhD? Is there anything
above a PhD? Whatever it is, I have one of
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those in napping. And let me tell you, best investment
I've ever made in my life is resting. It is resting.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for joining me on
this episode of Big Goal Energy. I am so grateful
you're here. I need one more quick favor of you
before we wrap. If this resonated with you, please send
it to two or three women that you know would
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really benefit from this, Women that you know work really
fucking hard that need to incorporate more rest into their
days and into their lives. And of course don't forget
to subscribe. I will see you on next week's episode.
Thank you again so much for joining me. Thank you
for joining us on this episode of Big Goal Energy.
We trust that it fueled your ambition and made you
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feel seen. We are a community of ambitious female entrepreneurs
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Together We'll turn your audacious dreams into remarkable achievements.
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