Hello and welcome!

Last week I did something radical. I didn't go to work for a week and had no plans. Being a little bit goal oriented, I don't like to take time off work without knowing where my time will be spent. This was the first time in over a year where I had more than three days in a row with no work obligations to contend with. (Well work seeped in but that's a story for another time.)

I realized something. I'm burnt out at my current job. While I don't have a particularly difficult job, the working conditions are less than pleasant. Funny that I came across this article entitled How to avoid burnout by working less and doing more while I wasn't working last week.

The older I get the more I realize how much damage can occur when you let one aspect of your life dominate over everything else. Maybe this is why top level executives are on the meditation train. Balance.

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Here are a few interesting things I stumbled upon since I last emailed.

1. Strong black coffee consumed before breakfast substantially increased the blood glucose response to breakfast by around 50%
2. Here’s how to say no in a way you can feel good about (even if you feel like you’re expected to say yes)
3. Feline geoglyph from 200 - 100BC emerges in the dun sands of southern Peru

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Before watching the documentary RBG, I didn't know much about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Ginsberg's efforts led to:

• The right for a woman to sign a mortgage without a man (1974)
• The right for a woman to have a bank acct without a male co-signer (1974)
• The right for a woman to have a job without being discriminated based on gender
• The right for women to be pregnant/have kids and work (1978)

In researching this, I saw that women couldn't even run in the Boston Marathon until 1972!

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I think that's all I have to share at the moment. With that I'd like to leave you with a message from your friendly local mail carrier.

Hope you have a super fantastic week!

-Adam

“Do not underestimate yourself. You are capable of more than you can ever imagine. When life presses in on you the hardest, that is when your breakthrough is near. Press on. Do not stop to think about the work you have to do. Just put yourself on auto-pilot.” - Les Brown