Gemma Speck

You will always find something to do, even if it is the stupidest thing ever, like clean Tupperware or suddenly decide you're going to do your taxes.

If you have an empty space, you're going to take it and you're going to do something productive with it.

We can think of it as an asset.

We can think that it's great.

Like sometimes it's not.

The first tip is to start treating rest not as a reward, but as an investment in the future and in future you.

If you treat rest as an investment, like putting money away in a savings account every single week, it becomes part of how you run your life.

I say investment because I think the brains of high achievers, overachievers like that language more and how you speak about rest is important.

Language towards rest matters, I think, in minimizing guilt initially because it cognitively reframes its importance to you at the beginning.

as, I don't know what it sounds about, but as a productivity additive almost.

So if you're just trying to firstly just rest without feeling guilty, yes, you can think about it not as reward,

You can also think about it as an investment in you and that I think changes your emotions towards it.

It's not something you do when you're good enough.

It's not something you do because you deserve it.

You do it because it's like maintenance.

You are building a successful life.

It is a non-negotiable.

It is a smart non-negotiable.

The second cognitive shift is to think of rest as being as natural as the seasons.

When you rest, you are honoring the small winters of your life and you can't have the summers and the springs without the winters.