If you never rest, your team learns to fake being fine. Take the break so they can too.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Rest is one of the permissions a group takes from whoever is in front. If you are always available and never visibly stop, the honest answer to how are you becomes unavailable to everyone, and people start performing endurance instead of managing it. Exhaustion then hides until it breaks something.
Take an actual break where people can see you take it, and do not apologize for it or work quietly through it. Say plainly that you are tired when you are. One person doing that openly changes what the rest of the group feels able to admit.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
When did you last take a real break without guilt?
MORE IN PEACE, BOUNDARIES & INDEPENDENCE
- Down by twelve in the fourth, the huddle doesn’t need a speech. It needs one steady voice with a plan.
- In the last two minutes of a tied game, people don’t follow the fastest player. They follow the calmest breathing.
- Watch how the calm person handles the angry customer. That’s a free masterclass happening in real time.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.