Author: rstores
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What is Rest?
When I first shared with family members and a few close friends my idea to start The Rest Stop, everyone was incredibly supportive. One question I was asked though was, “Just how long can you write about rest and life balance before you run out of topics to discuss?” Fair question. If all I was…
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Clear the Clutter
When you hear the word clutter, what comes to mind? A scene from an episode of the TV show “Hoarders”? A pile of laundry in the corner? A jam-packed garage? For me, it elicits a visceral reaction. I actually cringe over clutter. I do not handle clutter well. I cannot work in a space that…
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Quiet Quitting….is it stealing?
“The great resignation”, “quiet quitting”, “career coasting”, and “boundary balancing” are terms and practices that have crept into the workplace. These trends have had both a positive and negative impact. The change in work environments because of covid, remote work, and the gig economy, has caused millions in the workforce to reflect, reassess, and rebalance…
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When I work, I work….When I’m off, I’m off
Ok, this really frosted me, so I wanted to write about this now. Yesterday I had just finished my morning run and was in the locker room at the gym and overheard two guys talking who were obviously co-workers. They were discussing a fellow co-worker who was being let go. The first guy says, “He’s…
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Shhhhhhhhhhhh, quiet please
You’ve heard “Silence is golden”. The roots of this phrase go back to a proverb “Speech is silver, silence is golden” extolling the value of silence over speech. I’ve had to work really hard to learn the discipline of silence in my life. My wife says I’m always making noise. I can be sitting on…
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Chronos Time Vs Kairos Time
When it comes to living a balanced life, time and how I spend it is the most valuable and important lesson I’ve learned these past four years. No matter what our station is in life, our location, vocation, or financial status, it doesn’t matter, we all have exactly the same amount of time allocated to…
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Leisure Time NOT A Life of Leisure
There’s a major difference between leisure time and a life of leisure. Leisure time is vital for setting up and keeping rhythms and routines of rest and life balance. However, seeking to live a life of leisure is not at all what we should be pursuing. There are those who think time off or down…
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Remember the Sabbath
Remember the Sabbath. Sounds pretty simple. And yet it is the longest of the ten commandments – 98 words based on the NKJV. God must have anticipated that we’d mess it up, and gave it more ink than any of the others. There is no ambiguity. The instruction is clear, we are to observe a…
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Content or Content?
Are you content, or is your life about accumulating content? If you hope to live a restful and balanced life you must come to grips with the issue of contentment. The story is told that a reporter once asked John D. Rockefeller how much money is enough to which it is said he replied, “Just…
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No is a complete sentence
Nearly every one of the 30 plus books I have read the past four years on rest and life balance has had one thing in common to them all. The word NO. Here are just a few examples: Michael Hyatt in his book Free to Focus says “Every yes inherently contains a no, acknowledge and…
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