**I am one of those people who always try to go further, who accept challenges with enthusiasm and who believe that there is always a solution. Maybe both. But the reality is that, sometimes, you just can't.

This is not just something that happens to me. **We live in a world of excess: too many stimuli, distractions, challenges and demands imposed by life itself.

This is reflected in the increasing cases of burnout, a term that has become a globalized term to describe the **result of an unsustainable lifestyle.

Sure, sometimes the feeling of being exhausted arises from lack of discipline, poor time management or falling into daily distractions. But this is not always the case. Many times, in our eagerness to be the best version of ourselves, we ignore the signals our body sends us. This body, which has evolved over thousands of years, gives us clear signals (sometimes not very subtle) that it's time to stop, to slow down the pace of life for a moment....

At a time when we talk about self-discipline and perseverance, this reflection is not a counterpoint, but a reinforcement: listening to and respecting our body is a profound act of discipline, focus and self-knowledge.

There are times when true perseverance is about prioritizing rest, introspection and recovery. Rather than seeing the pause as a waste of time, I invite you to consider it as a strategic investment in our future ability to achieve our goals. Instead of viewing **the pause as a waste of time, I invite you to view it as a strategic investment in our future ability to achieve our goals.

**Without energy, there is no progress, no change, no evolution.

A hug,
Juan

When you are on the verge of collapse, the point where you find it hard to keep up with all your schedules and commitments and you would like to schedule the whole day and try to see if it is possible... do the mental exercise.

Come on, imagine it. You would take a vacation without traveling, or you would grab a backpack and go around the world. You'd watch your favorite shows all day, or read until your eyes were tired, slipping guiltlessly into several naps throughout the day. You would change your routines, sleeping during the day and dancing at night, or the opposite: you would wake up before dawn every day with the clear horizon of dedicating yourself to your business, those you never had time to undertake before this new phase. You would visit the universes of your favorite people, with no end time, until they would start to blink because they would not have the privilege of changing their routine at will.

Or would you end up building the same life in the long run? The same commitments you worked so hard to get rid of? Maybe you'd do it an octave lower: a little less of this and a little less of that would probably be enough. In that case you wouldn't need to destroy everything, it would be more a matter of dosage.

Now another visualization: you go on the road in your favorite vehicle, car, bicycle, roller skates.... You don't have to arrive at any fixed time, no rush. You can stop to eat something on the way, you can get off to watch the cows, get wet if it rains, or stop until it stops. After a while, you will spontaneously get into your cruising speed, which you will maintain most of the time. You tend to stabilize at a certain speed, because that saves effort: a constant pressure on the accelerator, or a rhythmic movement of the arms and legs, or a breathing and pulsations that trigger a body rhythm. Of course, you can modify that monotony by proposing to go faster or slower, but there is also something economical and easy, pleasant, in surrendering to it. It is an equation that works for you at that precise moment, considering the millions of variables.

How much room is there in your life for you to move at cruising speed?

More on this subject in the free book Viva mais e melhor, by Professor DeRose and in O método DeRose e a gestão do stress, by Joris Marengo.