The case for taking a beat

the discipline of doing less

I’m taking some time away right now and I wanted to share how it is feeling. My goal in June was this: you’re just living (not documenting) the actual life you have built. My only other goal was to journal every day of my time offline.

When you’ve spent any amount of time building an audience or a business, the pull is always toward more, and the instinct is always to keep producing, keep showing up, keep being part of the conversation, and that instinct isn’t wrong and has served me well for years. But I’ve started to notice there’s a version of always-producing that is, when I’m being honest with myself, a kind of avoidance, because it is so much easier to stay in motion than to stop the hamster wheel in it’s place.