Making time to exhale

Heidi and I foster a very important rhythm of rest. We have walked with hundreds of people over the years through our process, and we'd like to do it here for you. It's our secret sauce, our game changer, the constant in our life amidst all the other things that are constantly in flux.

We think it's important to have daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly rhythms of rest. These are habits designed to create space for you to exhale. We think you need that. You need to exhale! Sometimes when I rock climb I notice that I'm holding my breath during hard moves. This is true of life. When you're striving and struggling and trying to achieve, it's easy to stop focusing on what restores you. Rhythms of rest help you re-focus and renew your strength — they help you exhale.

Once a day, when the kids go to bed, we have made a habit of stopping important work. We stop cleaning, and preparing, working, and the endless other set of tasks that never seem to get done. Once a week we take a Sabbath day. If you've followed our blog for any length of time you have heard us talk about this. Then once a month we take a two day Sabbath. We string together a Saturday and a part of Sunday to be at the beach. Then, once a year we take four weeks to rest outside of the town in which we live. That's it! That's our rhythm of rest.

It's time to exhale, friends.