Life has no pause button. When you need a break, you take it while the game keeps playing, so take it wisely.

Rest never actually stops the clock. Whatever you step away from keeps developing while you are gone, which makes a break a move inside the game rather than an escape from it. That is not an argument against resting, it is an argument for choosing when. A break you schedule costs a known amount, while a break you collapse into costs whatever it decides to.

Put one real rest block into this week before you need it. An evening with nothing in it, a Sunday morning, an hour with the phone off. Treat it like a commitment to somebody else, because protecting it is the whole trick.