Have you ever thought about rest as a performance strategy instead of a weakness? For years I treated stopping like losing. Sleep, slowing down, taking a rest day, I saw all of it as soft. Running multiple businesses, raising three boys, chasing goal after goal, I redlined my engine for seasons at a time and paid for it in my health and my family.

In this episode I'm digging into a chapter I read recently out of Charles Swindoll's book "Jesus," titled "It Is Best to Rest." It completely shifted how I think about this. We trace rest back to the creation story, walk through Israel wandering the wilderness for 40 years because of unbelief, break down the three enemies of rest (presumption, panic, and pride), and land on Jesus' invitation in Matthew 11: come to me and I will give you rest.

Rest touches your nutrition, your recovery, your finances, your relationships. It's the foundation your performance gets built on. My challenge to you this week: give yourself permission to stop treating rest as something you have to earn. Start treating it as fuel you cannot skip.

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Chapters:
0:00 Rest as a Performance Strategy, Not a Weakness
1:52 Why I'm Referencing Swindoll's "Jesus" and My Paradigm Shift on Rest
3:41 When Busyness Becomes a Badge (My Story)
4:47 Rest as a Gift From God: Creation and the Sabbath
7:53 The Churning Place We All Carry
10:03 Israel's Wilderness: Missing the Promised Rest Through Unbelief
17:40 My Squiggly Entrepreneurial Journey and the Three Enemies of Rest
23:32 Presumption, Panic, and Pride
28:02 Jesus' Invitation: Come to Me and Find Rest
33:12 Where I Find My Own Rest
35:34 This Week's Challenge: Rest Is Fuel, Not a Reward

What if the worst season of your life was actually preparing you for the moment you'd need it most?

What if I told you three simple rules could change how you see your entire life?

I want to walk you through a game I've been playing for years now. It's simple on paper but it will test you. Three rules. Choose to believe your past was perfect. Choose to believe people (including yourself) are doing the best they can with what they've got. Choose to take full responsibility for your words and your actions.

I'm going to get personal in this one. I'll tell you about decades of dealing with addiction in my family, the night my son needed me more than he ever had, and how forgiveness quietly built the exact strength I needed for that moment. This episode is about finding meaning in the mayhem instead of waiting for it at the end of the rainbow.

If you've been carrying your past like a chain, this one's for you.

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00:00 – Intro & Harris Coaching Group
00:47 – The Game of Three Rules
02:27 – Rule 1: Choosing to believe the past is perfect
04:47 – Decades with an alcoholic mother-in-law
09:34 – The power of forgiveness
11:56 – The night his son needed him most
14:24 – Rule 2: Everyone's doing the best they can
16:31 – Compassion for himself as a father
18:30 – Rule 3: Taking 100% responsibility
20:45 – E + R = O: response determines outcome
23:01 – The law of unintended consequences
27:52 – The two problems in today's world
30:06 – Bringing the three rules together

I sat down with Joy St. John, founder of The Joyous Edge, for one of the most honest conversations I've had on this podcast. Joy spent over 25 years in risk and compliance in banking, climbed all the way to managing director at KPMG, and was on the partner track. Then a car accident that could have killed her and her mom forced her to stop.

We talk about what it actually looks like to rebuild your life after you've been running on empty for years. Joy walks through the framework she built from her corporate background and applied to her own health and purpose, why so many high achievers use work to avoid what's really going on at home, and the moment she had to decide whether to speak up about something that happened to her at work.

We also get into faith, forgiveness, why isolation might be the most dangerous trap in today's world, and why choosing to be a victor instead of a victim changes everything about how you live.

If you're an executive, a business owner, or anyone who feels like you're running yourself into the ground chasing a version of success that doesn't actually feel good anymore, Ep:37 is for you.

Connect with Joy:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@joyousedge?si=Meuu6zHyFTuDYbLh
Website: https://www.thejoyousedge.com
Free call: freejoycall.com

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