Rest When You Are Tired

AA said: Det är verkligen en passande text för mig just nu då jag håller på att göra mig av med mina ägodelar
BB said: Weise Worte! Es klingt so einfach und ist so schwer umzusetzen. Aber es ist gut, erinnert zu werden. Danke, Sabina.
CC said: What a nice and meaningful reminder 💚🙏🏻
DD said: Detta mail kom precis när jag behövde det! 

Rest When You Are Tired

Work when there is work to do. Rest when you are tired. One thing done in peace will most likely be better than ten things done in panic… I am not a hero if I deny rest; I am only tired.

                                    Susan McHenry

We often plan to fulfil a task at a given moment, without listening to our body if it says “enough”. Perhaps we want to thoroughly clean the house just before guests arrive, or quickly turn over the soil in the veggie garden on a Saturday morning before leaving with the family for the sea.

We decide to do something in a certain period of time and beware whoever or whatever comes in our way! In such moments we act like robots, and after the job is done it’s as if our batteries were taken out - we simply collapse.  

No, we’re not heroes because we work like maniacs. We’re just tired. Most likely we have not enjoyed our work and perhaps we can’t enjoy anything else that day: neither the visit of our friends, nor the outing to the coast.

Listen to your body. Do your work without stress, peacefully and in a “normal” rhythm. Do it as well as you can, with all your attention. Enjoy the work you have to do – and rest when your body tells you to.