THIS WEEK IN FOUND:
This week we're looking at why the fatigue hits the second you're back at your desk. Plus your weekly reflection question and one step worth taking before Sunday ends.

You just took a week off. Had the time of your life. Then day one back, the fatigue sets in, and you're already counting down to the weekend.

If that's happened to you, you're not alone. But underneath it is something worth naming: a lack of contentment, a resistance to accepting where you're at right now.

Sometimes the reason is obvious. You look at where you are versus where you want to be, and it feels too slow. But sometimes it's not clear at all. You might even love the work and still feel like something's off. You can't name it, so you don't enjoy it. Things go numb. Dull.

I'll be honest, after this many years in the career, I feel that too sometimes. But I've come to see it through expectation and gratitude.

Money, currency, is a flow. A form of energy. There has to be gratitude toward that flow for it to keep moving into other things. The wind doesn't always blow the same direction. Currency doesn't always flow the same way either. Even where you're at right now could stop. So you always have to be positioned to help that flow open new opportunities. That's a different posture than just showing up and going through the motions.

If you show up as your best self, thankful for the opportunities, for the chance to serve people, clients, community, whatever your work is, and genuinely appreciative of that, you're already on your side quest. Moving toward what you want while grateful for what you've got. The hard days feel different. Lighter.

The practical version: stop projecting into the future. Stop wishing things were some other way. If you can be present and let the day affect you only in the moment, things flow better. You have to let your own energy work for you instead of against you.

The way you spend your time off should feel like the same energy as when you're on the clock. Hold that, and weekends stop being an escape hatch you're counting toward, and you stop losing your actual time off to the anxiety of going back.

Go into the next week with an open mind. Stay receptive. And when the weekend comes, let it just be a day you happen to have off, not a finish line you've been racing toward all week.

This week's reflection:
Where in your week did you catch yourself waiting for time off, instead of actually being in the time you had?

Hit reply and tell me what came up. I read every one.

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Find your fit. Find your balance.
Terencio
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