[SPEAKER_00]: hope you're doing well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: God, thank you for today, thank you for life, health, strength, bless us, give us a nugget, a sentence, a segment, some information that we need that will help us be better individuals [SPEAKER_00]: the benefits, and about one month ago, I talked about this to some degree, but I wanted to dig a little deeper about the benefits of slowing down.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I see so many people, I'm in my mid-40s.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm hearing so many, so much news about people die.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm here is because we live in this culture where people, as my grandma would say, back down south, are burning the candle at both ends.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's this grind culture where people are brag about working seven days, they brag about 16 hour days, they brag brag brag about them getting the bag and doing the most work and I get it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I understand the benefits of hard work, I understand the benefits of getting ahead of the competition by putting in more hours and more work, I get it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But also understand the fact that there's a price, there's a cost to all of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a cause.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, it's interesting because I remember one, I don't know how true it is or how accurately it is, but this gentleman talked about speakers and he was talking in particular about preachers and how every single week when a preacher gets up to preach, they take off minutes of their lives because they're putting so much into it.

[SPEAKER_00]: They miss so much sleep.

[SPEAKER_00]: They've done so much in an effort to craft this thing out that they've [SPEAKER_00]: What they're shaving off hours of the lives.

[SPEAKER_00]: There is something called burnout, there's something that people find themselves prematurely entering into this state of fatigue and a place where they can't seem to get ahead and it's because many times we don't embrace the benefit.

[SPEAKER_00]: of slowing down and I get it.

[SPEAKER_00]: We got it honestly.

[SPEAKER_00]: Many of us have come from environments where maybe our parents worked.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you're from my neighborhood, your parents probably work more than one job just to make the bare minimum.

[SPEAKER_00]: You said to yourself, I'm going to do better.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so what you're doing is the same thing they did, burning yourself out [SPEAKER_00]: maybe making a few dollars more and I'm not saying you shouldn't grind and do your thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I think there are seasons in our life where there is this, I should say there is this work life balance.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, one of my buddies put this one.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really love this.

[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't call it work life balance.

[SPEAKER_00]: He calls it work life harmony.

[SPEAKER_00]: where my work is feeding off of my personal life, for my personal life is feeding off my work life and they're working together in harmony to ensure that me and my family stay at optimum health so that we can continue to operate and to move at a high level.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if we're going to embrace the benefits slowing down, I'm going to encourage you to choose a day each week.

[SPEAKER_00]: to schedule slower activities and the sound was so off the wall, but I want you, I want to invite you to pick a day during the week, Monday through Friday, to schedule a slower pace.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I see some families, they're always eating on the right.

[SPEAKER_00]: They come home for dinner, but they've picked up something from the restaurant.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're always doing, and I get it fast, pace society.

[SPEAKER_00]: should pick one even during the week where you actually cook a home cook meal.

[SPEAKER_00]: Won't you pick one even during the week where you actually sit down with your family and watch a movie or watch episode of a show.

[SPEAKER_00]: Won't you pick a day during the week where um and then there's some people who do date nights and I encourage that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But but if we're going to pace ourselves and come back this grind [SPEAKER_00]: We've got to be intentional about our time, about our efforts.

[SPEAKER_00]: We've got to be intentional about those things that help and harm us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: And those things that harm us, I've got to ask myself, is it worth it?

[SPEAKER_00]: to practice gratitude and reflection.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's some superstars this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: Some people that have passed away this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: And everybody's trying to figure out why, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, I don't know if you know this or not, but [SPEAKER_00]: We're all going to eventually die, all right?

[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know, a die before I have to.

[SPEAKER_00]: Are you with me?

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to, I don't want to die prematurely.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's some things, some goals that I have, some things that I want to accomplish, some things I know that God has placed me here for, and I want to walk out every single thing that God has placed me here to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so as I'm getting older, I'm being more [SPEAKER_00]: even even things as little as this and this sad that we're in this place but somebody other day I couldn't front of them and I wouldn't say cut I mean there was some space there I didn't like they never saw them breaks but they were so angry I mean they were blowing their horn and of course the temptation as a human is for me to get on their level [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm seeing more and more people are crashing out on the highways, people are road raised and shooting people in, oh, I said, you know what, I want to live.

[SPEAKER_00]: I ain't walking around scared, but I'm saying, I'm doing my best to make proper choices or making the best choice.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's in front of me, so this person was so, I mean, they followed me through a couple of more real lights and they were just blowing a horn.

[SPEAKER_00]: I said, you know what, this is not my neighborhood, but let me get off here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let them just go back to the business.

[SPEAKER_00]: They just can't stand the sight of me because I got in front of them, you know, I apologize internally.

[SPEAKER_00]: I said, you know what?

[SPEAKER_00]: This is not...

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what they have.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what their intentions are.

[SPEAKER_00]: But let me prematurely turn off this and I got off that street, man, and they kept going and I waited for a good little while before I got back on.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying.

[SPEAKER_00]: I ain't trying to leave you early, all right?

[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, I've got to make sure that I try to make the best decisions I could make in the moment.

[SPEAKER_00]: But stuff I used to do and how I used to respond and stuff I'm like, man, the first person that comes to my mind is my son.

[SPEAKER_00]: Before I make some crazy move or respond in an ill manner, [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not trying to jeopardize my ability to breathe in and breathe out.

[SPEAKER_00]: The same energy there should be place in other places as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't feel like going to work out every morning.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I go work out because [SPEAKER_00]: I ain't trying to be boss and I ain't trying to be the dude on the beach with, no, no, I'm trying to live.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm past all that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm pushing toward my late 40s.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can admit, I ain't trying to impress anybody.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to live.

[SPEAKER_00]: So what can you do?

[SPEAKER_00]: Ask yourself, what can I do?

[SPEAKER_00]: that will help benefit me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, some people yoga, my mom is in her 70s.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's, I'm so proud of her.

[SPEAKER_00]: She goes out and she does her rubits class.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Not because she wants to.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not because she feels always the energy to do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because she's trying to extend her life.

[SPEAKER_00]: At some point in your life, you've got to ask yourself, man, listen, this thing can vignette, but it's gonna bless me.

[SPEAKER_00]: This doesn't feel good, but if it's going to help me live a little bit longer, if it's going to help me live out my purpose, if it's going to help me for field with God, placement to do, you while I'm here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hey listen, I'm I'm engaging it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to encourage you to get your slower activities.

[SPEAKER_00]: Practice gratitude and reflection.

[SPEAKER_00]: Implement, and I was going to grade it this at the beginning of the year, but I kind of fell off and to get back to it, implement some tech free time.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, my wife is always looking out for our health, looking at something, some study, something.

[SPEAKER_00]: And she gave me this information that they about Bluetooth and how we shouldn't have too much time with Bluetooth stuff because it could harm our sale.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know something.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was, I forgot the exact information there, but whatever I can do, [SPEAKER_00]: to help extend my life.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, I'm gonna carry you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't burn yourself out.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna carry you to look out for your own health.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna carry you to be sure that you don't let other people run you raggedy either.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you let them know what your boundaries are.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to know what you stand for, and you can ting it to be strong and everything that you do, because life is to be lived.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to enjoy it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to fulfill your purpose, most importantly, I want you to have a long and healthy life ahead.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, check this out with somebody who's struggling with burnout, who's struggling with managing their time, balancing those things that they should do, and things that they can make it that can wait till next week of the wait till tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_00]: Tell them to somebody and help them live.

[SPEAKER_00]: more intentionally and including rest and work life harmony.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen up, I hope you all continue to go.

[SPEAKER_00]: Grow and blow this week.

[SPEAKER_00]: Again, share this out.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking forward to being with you next week.

[SPEAKER_00]: One more time.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you again for joining me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Take care.