August 6, 2024

My Dear Families,

It’s a New Day, what a Beautiful thing.

I am Thankful for You.

I’m going to confess, straight up… the past few weeks have been some of the most intense ever.

We’ve been in the lab engaged in a pretty high volume of production. I’m talking every minute of every day has had to be intentionally allocated in order to get things done.

Although I’m used to this sort of fast rhythm to Life, it got to a point where I had to take a moment to stand back and observe the situation objectively.

I found myself a bit fixated with ideas of how things had to be.

Lets just say that “going with the flow” and “taking it easy” were concepts that did not resonate with me at all.

I honestly didn’t understand how any amount of time could be spent not producing or creating something. I think even in my sleep I was scheming something up for the Future.

And don’t get me wrong, I enjoy creating things and using my energy to procure beautiful outcomes and experiences; but the intensity I found myself engaged with needed some type of adjustment, for real for real.

After analyzing the situation, I chose to do something quite a bit out of my comfort zone, I decided to…

Take a lil break

And it was Awesome.

Wow, what a difference a simple change can make. I needed it.

I realized my internal gears were in full force, like all the time. I had such a full schedule that my lunches were strategically planned to take place while driving so that I wouldn’t have to stop my forward motion. I no longer had the willingness to just simply waist a little bit of time.

I don’t necessarily think these things were bad; I just felt like it didn’t work for me personally. At least not anymore. I don’t want to always operate that way.

Taking a lil break taught me a lot. I was able to sort of look at myself in full.

What I discovered was very interesting; I saw an enormous amount of energy flowing through me, non-stop. But I also saw that I no longer had control of it; I was being taken over by it.

I was doing way too many things at a time and my priorities were all scrambled.

I found this to be a key distinction.

And so the moment came to make decisions that would allow me to get back on track. I went about organizing myself a bit better and I readjusted my calendar based on priorities. I had to let go of some things that were just not that important and I had to pause others that didn’t require immediate attention.

It was a challenging process but the results have been amazing. Everything is way simpler now and it feels real good; it feels right.

A Break, a quick Vacation or just a Day Off to fully spend it with Your Family might prove to be the most Beautiful and Necessary thing to improve Your way forward.

It surely did it for me.

I hope this here letter sheds a lil bit of Light on Your path.

As always, feel free to reach out with Your opinions, suggestions and questions. I am here for You.

Have a Beautiful day.

Rise,

JC