Nick Bare

This spoke to me a lot when I came across this.

How do we slow down in life?

create margin.

Many of us live lives with little to no margin.

The space between our load and our limits, we are looking at our days in terms of 24 hours and we fill all 24 hours.

If 24 hours is the limit and you can control the load, if you fill 24

Your 24 hours being the limit with a 24 hour load, you have no margin left over.

The margin is where you rest.

It's where you recover.

We have to control the rhythms of our life and it's easier said than done because I'm not telling you I have this perfect.

I don't.

I'm still trying to figure this out.

The rhythms of our life

It's a principle that I know that is harder to apply than to conceptualize.

I'm just being honest there.

The rhythm of our life is the balance between the sympathetic and the parasympathetic.

The sympathetic nervous system is the fight or flight response.

The parasympathetic nervous system is the rest and digest state.

When you're in the parasympathetic state,

You're at ease, you're calm, you're resting, you're recovering.