Gemma Speck

It doesn't mean you can override your natural settings.

So if you want your physical health, your mental health

to be great, to be amazing, your cognitive health to be amazing, you have to acknowledge that there are so many factors that are going to contribute to when you are going to be forced to rest and when you are going to be able to be productive.

You will be more productive if you follow what is naturally set for your humanness and what is naturally set for your body and for your mind.

Now, here is the unsexy part that makes all of this actionable.

Throughout all this, these tips, you actually need to start scheduling rest.

Like I said, like it's a non-negotiable.

You cannot wait for it to naturally happen because you'll usually end up resting when you're sick.

So it's just about recovery, not about deep nourishment.

I want you to look at your to-do list right now and I want you to look at your diary and I want you to plan one day a week, one afternoon a week where you don't do anything as your scheduled rest day.

I like to do this thing with my friends on Sunday mornings called the Dilly Dally.

This is my rest.

This is how I like really restore my mind and like allow, I hate saying the word allow, but like help myself get into it where me and my friends, I live for my Dilly Dally days.

We

all get together on a Sunday, we pick each other up, phones down, and we just potter along.

We go to the markets, we get a coffee, we walk around the grocery store.

When we come together, like, we don't have any plans.

We don't have any plans, we don't have any agenda.

We just get to do whatever we want.

We dilly and we dally.