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# Rest is not the reward. It’s the plan.
- URL: https://weiter-mind.nichedthemes.com/rest-is-the-plan/
- Published: 2026-11-01T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-01T07:00:00.000Z
- Description: Why the week you take off is part of the work.
- Author: Mara Lindqvist
- Tags: Notice, Rest, #newsletter, #Import 2026-11-11 10:07

Dear reader, most of the people I work with treat rest like dessert. They earn it, and then they feel guilty eating it.

Plans that hold have the rest written into them. A week off every seventh week. An evening with nothing on it, said out loud to the people you live with.

Here’s the test I use: if your plan only works when you never get ill, never travel and never have a sad month, it’s a wish with a calendar attached.

This week, put one empty evening in your diary and give it a name. Mine is called “nothing, on purpose”.