Episode #2: What Going Off-the-Grid Gifted Me

If you would have told me that I would take time off this past summer, I would have responded with a “hell no” to that. And, proceeded to claim that I needed to “get shit moving” or that I “couldn’t possibly take time off” … or, some other version of “no, I can’t.”

Yet, when the universe says STOP, the universe means NOW.

My level of burn-out had reached a pretty significant level. Again, I hadn’t been back here since my corporate days, more than a decade ago.

I was pushing again. Pushing. So. Hard. Grinding, winding, burning, churning, making “shit happen.” You know, the good ‘ole GSD mentality.

My old friend.

Though, if I am being honest with myself, it was never much of a friend to me. It stole from me, it taunted me, it convinced me I wasn’t worthy unless I proved myself. It laughed at me, it drove me to the brink of exhaustion, to the black abyss of hell and back many times. It cost me. A lot.

In fact, this “friend” of mine was pure evil, pure darkness, pure bullshit. This belief, this story, we buy into that we have to hustle. We have to work hard … you know, the “no pain, no gain” type of bullshit we feed ourselves over and over and over again.

I realized I needed to part ways with this old friend of mine. I needed to find a new friend, in myself. In my truth. And, it required me to get still to see it:

I have lived most of my life trying to prove myself, to validate myself. For what? For who?

Listen to this episode where I discuss what going off-the-grid gifted me, as well as why I believe "quitting" is one of the most important things we can do.

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