You're, listening to the gold digger podcast episode number two hundred and ninety eight, if you want to wake up Morrow Morning turn off your phone, a laptop and put them in your desk drawer for the whole day. How would it make you feel what feelings. Does that simple thought evoke for you would You feel elated in free, like go. Wait was lifted off of your shoulders, or would you feel entirely anxious, frazzled and guilty yours suddenly unavailable that someone might need to reach you and suddenly you're unreachable. Few years ago, I was out one of my favorite places in the entire world Camp one to wake up, and I doing yoga on the front line on a blanket- and I remember the instructor leading us through oppose and saying real MAX. No one needs you in this very moment in thinking well, that's I'd, told later I mean someone might need be, and that thought is only. Now that I'm a mom, but

all these years later and still holding onto that message, especially when I start to feel myself being a little too available funny mean the other day when it said, Rob but all days when we would say be our be when we left the internet well Now we never leave. We live here and it's kind of true. Isn't it the sand for many of us, is that were probably leaning more towards feeling stressed in anxious about being disconnected instead of feeling freedom when we think about the idea taking a day off and being completely does connected from work? Even email is a strange concept for so much the american workforce for it. And workers in America Report working longer than fifty hours a week in the world, the largest economies, the next workers with the longest hours include Australia, who citizens average and power thirty two hours a week and Sweden,

in Switzerland, whose workers each clock about thirty one hours a week of work, income bears and we work longer than all of them in it seems we only want to continue that trend plus, prison the? U S, get about fifteen days, pdf or personal time off on average and take about fourteen of those each year european countries they their employees, twenty eight days of patio and while they don't always use all of them, is astounding to see the difference in how important our country considers time off. While you might be for or have an unorthodox work life with flexibility, indifferent work, our standards, I that you can still relate to the fact that you work more than the average human and you seldom. If ever folly. Disconnect I definitely say it's more difficult, sometimes to turn it off as an entrepreneur, especially one that works from home. I'm you work

is always accessible. There are so many avenues in ways people are reaching out and needing you. Your computer is just taunting you to open it and you can get sucked into work mode in a matter of seconds. Didn't know, office to leave at the end of the day and so work sneaks its way into your every day and night moments. This as of your business riding on your back at all times is enough to keep you connected. Twenty four seven in cases of fire to put our new lead to pursue. Now I told We get it. There were above, five years that I feel like I didn't take a single day off of work because figured, I needed to be hustling all the time, so that could be more successful and create a better future for myself and I just kept pushing through. I mean bring my computer with me everywhere in case something popped up. Arguments after that, on my knights and with my phone right next to it. In case, I remembered I needed to do something in the middle of the night. Talk about love, king boundaries, I was

slave do my best, and while I was seeing growth and experiencing forward motion, I was losing. Which was sanity, you know just a little bit, I mean I had now we're struggled with anxiety until I was an entrepreneur- and I remember this season where I had thirty weddings and I was out of fear we can. We can. We had rented this area can be in the woods and it was rare occurrence for us to all be together at the time- and I remember bringing my computer because I had so much work to be done. We got up to the cabin and there wasn't wifi and I straight up panicked like I almost a full blown panic attack- and I remember just breaking down and crying, and it was and then I realized I handed change something I was so stressed in ages, and I built a business that my life revolved around. Instead of building a business had supported my life, I was that season of anxiety and exhaustion. When I finally made a huge change and I sat and withdrew and decided that I would book have

of the work for the following year. I would literally caught my six figure income in half in order to claim back my time, insanity, and that was where the change really started to happen. So I want you to know that, regardless of where Europe today, you can change, and I hope that after two days episode, you're feeling like you can disconnect and trust that you builds a business out, won't crumble while you rest theirs. No way for us to always beyond all the time you can't and should and expect This ought to be connected to work and even social media all day every day and still maintain your physical, mental and emotional. It is simply not possible. I know because I've been there the thought of being a day off, let alone an extended period of time was anxiety inducing to me once upon a time, and now this episode is airing after a three week long trip with my family, where I was minimally connected to work. So I improved change is not just possible but necessary. If you want longevity, is an entrepreneur

Now I intentionally plan time every quarter to be completely off. Work to travel, be with family, explore, may interest in reconnect with my purpose and it didn't happen. Overnight. I'm not advocating that a month off is the right or sustainable, move for everyone or is starting place if you're just starting to contemplate taking a day off, but as humans, time away, need time away from technology and demands and comparisons and emergencies, the other others have that comes out point being constantly connected to the internet. We need space to breathe, to spend time with loved ones to unplug, and there is science to back this innate need up. Studies show that a positive mental break can actually the easier stress, alleviate anxiety, enhance productivity and creativity, boost your energy even improve your immune system. Isn't that crazy? I think its natural that automatically panic when we think about totally disconnecting from technology, and we

It even goes straight into rationalization mode about how taking a break just isn't it fit for you or your job won't allow you to do that or you need to be on social media. To show up for your audience. Are your clients are gonna freak out of you? Don't respond within a few hours and so on and so forth. The thought of taking time off my cause you anxiety rather than reading. You of it is that's you if the holds once our setting in a big mental knows. I'm is popping up in your head and blinking bright red over and over again, I encourage you to just keep listening, you dont have to try tomorrow or next week. Even, but I think, if you tried to take some time for you, starting small increments you'll, see how much better you can show up at work for your family, your clients and your relationships. You'll. We experience greater innovation and imaginative ideas to expand your business to the next level, with a small step away from the business of business. You'll probably feel lighter,

less consumed all the time you will realize your life won't immediately implode. Your business won't fall apart and you won't be a nervous wreck. If you take one day off, I can promise you that so- let's get into it and really ivy into the power of taking time to rest reset and unplug here we go. Your listening to the gold digger podcast, where we firmly believe that work doesn't have to feel like work. So made millionaire and marketing guru, Jenna Kutcher, will help you redefine what success looks like it's time to hear from the exports, listen in on onest conversations and learn the best tips and tricks that helped others pay their own way and craft their dream. Career if you're ready to dig in do the work and tackle your biggest goals you're in the right place. Here's your host educator, photographer and Makin cheese lover, Jenna Culture, this up.

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he saw it fit to stop interests. Take in the goodness of all that he has done. So why is it so difficult for us is earthly beings? Why can't we pause and take in the fantastic productivity we work through or the milestones we achieved or the trials? We found solutions for the ancient pray is of a salmon has become for us today in part because of technology for sure, but also because many of us have this constant need for more more growth, more I am more success, more money, more followers, more accolades, more clout even more time. How often have you wish for just a couple more hours in the day to get a little more work or stuff around the House Dan, I mean, I think, that's when my biggest desire as a new mom is that I just need more time in the day, and I can feel myself stretching every hour thin just to get done. What needs to be done now, Are you can relate it's like as soon as we achieve what ever more were seeking we're onto the next thing is

never ending cycle of go, go, go and until we become aware of the rat race, where a part of and were personally perpetuating, is never going to fix itself. So give us our stressed out chronically anxious and severely lacking sleep still want to continue the hustle and grind out. Another few hours are few days of hard core worked just get to that next level of more info. To our society has made the words hustle and grind status. Symbols of the best in the workplace. Words And phrases like taking a break or sleeping in or day off are much less idolized and you play What get a lot more judgment passed if you were to use them in an email to a colleague or a client its becoming, diction to chase next thing. With all of our mind, then we wonder why the bags, under our eyes, are so dark or we haven't made your favorite yoga studio in minds. It's a price

we pay for the never ending workload. Unless you decide to make a change and create a system for rest no matter your industry and jobs, the vast majority of us are constantly connected the email we have, Phones on us all. The time is simply making us on call all hours of the day and night and weaken studies have shown that this extended work availability has a strong negative impact in dampens your mood and greatly increases physiological stress which actually carries on into the next day. Even when people are no longer working, one said he showed that the mere prospect of work related interruptions during free time can exasperate stress. Can I man I mean- I think we ve all got an email from a boss or a call from a client at an inopportune time that immediately senses into panic bode thrilling.

Not good for the all brain. I mean mental health problems are becoming more and more significant in our culture, and the World Health Organization has named depression as the number one disease burden for the worldwide economy meant oh illness in substance, abuse caused employers, roughly eighty to one hundred billion dollars annually annual and yet we are still working ourselves to the bone and insight is work related stress, its causing all of the wagon straws were connected to every Instagram influence or Facebook friend and new Netflix series. Twenty four seven to some of us, work in the social media space, some of us don't, but no matter what their science had shows that our cons

in connection with social media, actually creates anxiety and feelings of unworthiness. I mean I'm getting. Asia's is thinking about this, so, whether you consciously realize it or not, we all compare ourselves to those online highly recalls that our peers and strangers and celebrities posts, and then we feel a little bit worse about ourselves after logging off did you know the average person touches their phone more than twenty six hundred times a day. These people are the constant checkers by the American Psychological Association and spoiler, you and I probably fall into that category so Do we quit technology before a really impacts? Our lives drastically? Author errand, idle high wrote a book called the hard break, the case for a twenty four six lifestyle, where he shares some compelling research about the idea of taking a day off each week and literally Turning off your phone in computer for an entire day

honestly to me, like that sounds kind of magical leg I needs of about my life, but I know that got panic might send in right when you hear the words turn off your phone for a day. That's why experts encourage people to just start with an hour of unplugging during this sort of heartbreak. Try your best not to even talk about business at all, you minds, think about it at first, especially and might be hard not to if you're used to constantly being available, but goal is to give your brain and even your body a break from either constantly working or constantly being connected to all the things all the time. It also gives you some space to stop running on autopilot from one activity to the next. Without pausing are thinking about how you feel or what you really need in that moment, this turning, of technology will allow you to tune in to your feelings. Your mental see in energy levels. Is war, spend quality time alone or with your loved ones? Now

don't use it as a work on how shores are finally finnish idea. Why shed project in your backyard I use it as an excuse to catch up on the hand made still think about. As disconnecting to reconnect with yourself and your family and loved ones, and I can guarantee you'll be shocked when you turn on workload again, you're gonna feel reinvigorated and energized and excited to get back at it. Your creed Seventy might be at an all time high. You might be ready to tackle year to do list with vigour rather than just chugging it out another day of us all. You might actually be arrested and ready to take on the next six days. With this day to look forward to another heavenly pause. So hopefully, oh you're, feeling convict in them. Maybe rise needs to become a priority in your life or at least you're gone debating how to make that actually happen. For you fear still with me. You would, I hope you are let's get in

the actual logistics of how to rest more because ya know. I love me some logistics now, I mentioned earlier. A hard break or Sabbath day doesn't just happen overnight, like we have to make it happen due to the standards of our society. It's probably not the best idea that just wake up one day and decide to throw your phone out the window or shut off entirely. Just like any other change. The key to doing it, gracefully is commitment, communication and compassion, and that last one is mostly for yourself. Unless you can, bragged is a little self. Combash in these could be pretty difficult, so just be patient and remember, rest is good for you, it's not the envy, your life or your business or the world and pulled together a few tips for infusing more rest in unplugged hours into your life. That should have you at least get started. So, let's Taiwan in number one Let others know about your plan to unplug.

Did you know that drew? And I we don't allow cellphones into our bedroom, like we literally charge them on a different phone of our house, so that we don't scrawl before bad or the? Secondly, wake up now we ve told for this new might have known that about us, but it's important because we are frankly unreachable for a good chunk of the day. Basically, after dinner is done. Our phones go into the corner of our kitchen and they don't come out until the next morning. Now its impact, for you delude people, India Plan in its critical, for a few reasons, the first being accountability. You may need to talk to your boss, who gets a little email, happy Sunday evenings or asked. Your spouse for some extra support or let your kiddos know that bones and devices are going to be off limits for a few hours or a full day. Whichever you choose drew, and I will literally lock them in a safe when we're on vacation or we

even play hide and seek with one another's devices when we're struggling to disconnect. So don't make this scary thing like have a little fun with it, but loop. The IMF working parties in who are necessary to help you follow through whether its family friends are workpeople mode. Commonly or find that there are actually going to want to support you with this gone. Inverted those has realised, were overworked and over connected, but not many of us choose to do anything about it. For all the reasons I have already gone through the act. Communicating this change. You might even inspire others to pursue some recharge time for themselves, especially after they see your improved productivity mood and other positive effects after practising it for a while, now, my team and I we have really strict boundaries when it comes to work, and we have to ask for her mission to voice tax one another vs slack, so that were not, popping into each other's worlds, one more busy with family or unplugged, the

is boundaries not only show and communicate respect, but they also protected. From jumping into work, when we should be rusting. I love that we operate this way and there's really only if you times under the year where we communicate using our cell phones and taxing knows really heavy periods of launching and big projects, so we have going on, but really my team has some really really high boundaries and I love it to stick to it. One practice I used to do it. I guess I used to do we need to get back into frankly. Is social media free weekends, where I would log out of my accounts on Friday, and I wouldn't log back in until Sunday is refreshing, goes you know weekend without worrying about documenting Instagram worthy moments, and I wasn't wasting all my time on apps when I could be unwinding with my family. None I'm when you first

I'm glad you may not like it, I mean you really really really may not like it. There is actually a study that, as our temptation to check the internet is harder to resist than food and sex. I mean this I guess it's pretty much raided peachy, but I found that stat totally fascinating, like why that's crazy why it's more than ok to just start with a few hours of disconnecting and then slowly adding a few more hours until you make it to a full day, maybe you're losing to this, and you think this is crazy and you're really good at disconnecting, but I can't think that you might a little bit like me and you just going to reach for your phone whenever there is a pause or allow so on for you to play and out your own plugged hours once a week for a whole month like blocked them off. Sarah minors put your phone on, do not disturb dilly apps, whatever you ve got to do to resist the urge and then commit to it at the end of it.

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from three whole weeks off and we had to mode a turn of the work, so the weak before I left, was crazy in all sense of the term, but I needed to be able to sign off record approve proof all the things, but here's the thing I knew that wouldn't be able to actually rest or unplug. Unless I knew everything was running a business as usual, while I'm away from my three month, maternity leave to my mom long sabbaticals. We are always working so far ahead so that the team as everything they need to keep the business running. While I rest so plan ahead, to protect that time finish any chores or work tasks that you know it just irc you, and if you remember something you need to do during your rest time, don't squash arresting get back to work right. Down somewhere, where you'll see it the next day and remember that the world won't fall apart. If you don't tackle that one thing right away, so ok to put you first sometimes I feel like we forget that number

load up on ideas for restful activities, now a lot of us think of rice and we get visions, a bubble, bass and candlelight or meditating or napping four hours, which honestly I can get behind the whole napping thing. But after a couple hours of no technology, you might be rated keg. Mental health to the curb just for the sake of scrolling Instagram for five minutes is a distraction or care to your boredom like we ve forgotten how to simply be Lord help is right. So make sure you have lots of ideas for non work. Restful activities to keep you busy fresh here opportunities for you to soak in, but make sure you also protect yourself from being stressed out busy naps meditating, our great sure, but so is reading a book or journaling practising yoga going for a walk or a hike with a family cooking. A new recipe calling a loved one sipping off

the front porch playing a backyard game sitting by a campfire taking the dog to the park, painting knitting listening to music? There are so many options to rest well and connect inwardly again without screens. Now I got the same, I mean on that note of taking a break whether it's a one hour week, three hours or a full day, which is the eventual goal. I want to encourage you to take. Dang vacation, when was the last time you took a true vacation, not a word trip, but actual time away Otto Responder up piece out business vacation in case you forgotten. You deserve a vacation. I know my not feel like it. I know there is. I was work to be done and emails to answer in people to reach out to. I know it feels like he'll just get behind and not be able to dig yourself out of you goin vacated. That's not the truth. We our human.

Beings, not human doings nonhuman, achieving not human email answer rings and campaign lodgings. A few months ago I was on a why and I played a voice tax from a fellow entrepreneur who is a dear friend of mine and telling me why she wasn't taking her annual sabbatical this year, which is usually a month off and rode away. I'm thinking! Why not? Why can't you There really was in a legitimate reason beyond feeling like she would fall behind. While she rested Mother, it is taught me anything. It's a bad things, We stress about the most as entrepreneurs are usually self imposed. Deadlines are high expectations we hold for ourselves. There are very few actual urgent needs for us to address so tat. Pending vacation protect, that's about it, more trust. Are you build something that, once all apart, when you stepped back, we are here on this earth to be to enjoy to explore.

To expand. Our mindset still enough with our best friends, are experience something new with your spouse, of Sunshine and Hague Mountains and sit on a beach for three days straight. Coming once in a lifetime trip with my family. I can attest to those memories being that things are all flash before my eyes at the end of my days now the hours upon hours lagged behind a screen. Now trust me I know how good it feels to keep her to do list acting continue, knocking out day after day. I know it can be attempting to draw your value from how much you get done and it can feel like an utter failure. Will we are just still or worse We are spending hard earned money on a get away or a vacation. I get it because I've been there, but please here mean when it's all said and done you be overjoyed by alive filled with ten our work days in calendars, packed with meeting after meeting the impressive prince teach and business acumen. You earned from a life of overworking yourself is just that. It's impressive, but it's not

make you feel full in the end, whether you're an employee of someone else. Are you run your own gig? It is ok to take a look, break and go on vacation. That's why it's built into the structure of most companies benefits, although I consider to be a little more generous of you asked me, but that's another story, Twenty seventeen miracles actually gave up nearly seven hundred million paid, Education days, seven hundred million paid vacation days were given up by Americans. Is that not insane? Also, a sad but true part of our culture. People feel old, asking for days offer they feel I d get behind or fear that someone else will get better preference in their company view. Your own business. It's a whole different beast. There might be clients to informer orders about there could be teams who advise from afar and logistics to keep up with. I know

There are plenty of reasons to knock, take vacation. That's why hundreds of millions of paid hours go unused, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't sit down the calendar, black, our deeds and protect them. Four drew an eye there. First six years of our relationship? We went away the first week of February every single year, We knew that we never voting for that time. It was our time now it's an entire month, and I, continually turned down work requests during that time in order to protect it, but I ever regret. When I do that, I black it out, it is totally blacked out. No one it's getting an absolutely no one. Now you can a lean on things like otter, responders. To answer questions you might know, come your way, good communication leading up to your vacation time in setting clear expectations and boundaries with people so that they don't interrupt your days off, are going to give you that time and that freedom to actually feel peace. Just

by taking a few hours off every week. Vacation allows your brain to rise and your mental health to actually improve, and it doesn't need to be some extravagant trip to Peru, either Gimme a symbol, road trip over an extended weekend, or even an overnight camping trip, if you're into that sort of thing. And if you have a little bit more room in your budget, I cannot recommend and of our favorite size of heaven on earth. Also known, his maui, you can even check out our do gone knows that we rent out to our visitors, vans and followers on the island at the culture condo dot com. No one it's a why or town two hours down the road to take the time to explore travel, spans are mindsets and perspectives these are saws and you'll feel so much better for it mentally, spiritually and emotionally take your occasions, because you are worthy of them. You ve earned them and you deserve them. Did you Quit your nine divide, five to work. Twenty four seven not know you didn't I now

brave rest more than I ever have in my entire life. Like I look forward I hope so hard and then I'm ready to pull back and I've trained myself to really value and honour those times of rest. And if I still having convince you and you need more risk still having convince you- and you need more reassurance at your business- won't follow part had on overdue in old Eba. Goody episode from this show at Genoa. Could your blog dotcom, Slash automate where I will walk you through five things you can automate in your business? Is aid to keep things rocking and rolling while you rest again, that's Jenna good, your blog dotcom, Slash, automate now for me Rest is harder than work in fact takes a few days of settling into active resting, because my auto pilot is to work and to push a needle and to keep on moving forward. So I hope you

I encourage you to take time to rest and protect your time, because it is so in need of being kept sacred. Prioritizing time breaks no matter of its an hour a week or a three week, long trip to Australia, Fiji and New Zealand just San whatever. Looks like for you. It is so massively important to our long term health, our relationships and even our work entrepreneurship is a marathon, not his friend, and every good runner knows that Rusty's are just as important as the heavy training days. I know it. The counter intuitive, but once you begin incorporating more rest, ensure life you'll feel this shift in your work mode and your productivity tenfold. Feel more invigorated and revitalized unless, like your cancelling running on empty, because you won't be so instead I'm telling you to dig your biggest cause, I'm an italian to dig deep and prioritize rested this week, because that's just as important as what you're working towards you can poor.

From an empty cup, my friend so this week, it's time to fill yourself up until Next time get some rest, thanks for listening to the gold digger podcast, I went to the show notes for this episode and all past episodes at W W W dad gold, digger podcast dot com. If you love the show share it with a friend the more the merrier thing, Bryn