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Rest Will Not Fix This (opens the original)
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Episode 30 of The Rewired Podcast is now live.This one is for everyone who took the holiday, got the sleep, tried the meditation app, and came back to the same quiet dread waiting at the desk.You’ve done what the burnout advice told you to do. You rested. You recovered. You guarded the calendar. And the heaviness is still there on Monday morning, like it never left.That’s because it isn’t fatigue. It’s something else entirely.I spent almost ten years in professional kitchens wearing exhaustion l
what you're calling burnout might be boredom (opens the original)
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Remember the night before a school trip. You couldn’t sleep, and nothing was even wrong.FreeByNoon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</div
Do what you said you would (opens the original)
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“You don’t ever do what you say you would do, Dad.”One of my three boys said it out loud, and the other two nodded along, the easy agreement of kids who have clearly talked it over between themselves and landed on the same verdict. They were 8, 6 and 4 at the time. Young enough to say it plainly. Old enough to be right.FreeByNoon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<form class="subs
The Guilt of Finishing Early (opens the original)
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Episode 29 of The Rewired Podcast is now live.This one names the thing you do every time the work is done and the afternoon opens up in front of you.You finish early. The important stuff is handled. The day is yours.And then you open the laptop again. You find an email that could wait. You reorganise something nobody will ever look at. You manufacture motion because the stillness does something to you that a task can fix.I did this for years. Finished the real work by late morning, then spent ho
The Container Rule (opens the original)
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A task takes exactly as long as you let it.Hand it 2 hours and it takes 2 hours. Hand it 2 days and it somehow takes 2 days too.FreeByNoon is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<div class="fake-in
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