Suleika Jaouad

Part of that for me is saying no

in favor of what nourishes me.

And I am planning to take what I call a mini retirement in the form of a two-week period.

Hold on.

Okay.

I feel like we wait until a certain age to retire, and I'm like, I don't want to wait until I'm 65.

I probably won't live to be 65.

So instead, I'm going to have my retirement segmented into little periods throughout the year, sprinkled throughout the year.

Two weeks, maybe I'll graduate to one month.

I was just going to say, okay.

And what I'm working towards is a six-month retirement and then a full-year retirement where I'm not going to publish anything.

I'm not going to –

do any of the kind of public-facing work things I do, and the only requirement is that it has to feel nourishing.

So I'm baby-stepping my way there.

As much as I'd like to tell you that I'm taking a year-long retirement, that's just not possible right now.

Yet.

Yet.

But I'm trying to shift out of this all or nothing kind of binary thinking that I'm so prone to and to say, well, maybe that's not possible right now.

But I can start exercising that muscle in a way that is.

I don't have to wait.