Today’s post at GettingOutMore.org. This one is about relaxing! Enjoy!
Sometimes it’s hard to sit still. Work hard/play hard is a nice motto to live by, but there is a third element you should always consider, and one that is often difficult for me to attain: Rest hard.
It’s easy to get caught up in the go-go-go lifestyle, especially if you are like some of us and feel like you have been living under a rock for a long time. Either too much work or family responsibilities can make us feel like we are not getting out enough, and so when the weekend comes, you hit the play-button hard. But after a while even that can be exhausting, especially if you have kids and are making a point of dragging them along with you.
A lot of us have fallen into the trap of thinking we have to play as hard as we work, but if you are spending all of your time playing and working, you are really just working all of the time. Some days just need to be lazy days, and we have to refocus our minds to understand that we are okay with that.
Read a damn book
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Wendigo Mountain 
Bath water kayak reading…one of my favorite things. Going out in the water on a calm lake and miring myself in the weeds and reading in the sunshine. I didn’t do that often enough last summer, I hope to do it at least once more in the next before selling the lake and the kayak…but not the books!