09/04/2026
I have a weird anxiety when I’m not working.
I've know this for a while but decided to write about it while sitting outside church, waiting for the 4 pm service to start.
This is not the I should get a few things done kinda anxiety (and I realize anxiety is a strong word here, but I know you get me).
It's more like the...
If I’m not coaching a client, writing a post, recording a reel, sending a newsletter, asking for referrals, building something, selling something…
my work and business is somehow falling apart kinda anxiety.
There’s this crazy belief underneath it that if I stop moving, everything else stops too.
A client waits 30 minutes for a response, and now I’m imagining they feel unsupported.
I don’t post for a day, and I will be irrelevant, and it will affect the algo-Gods.
I take an afternoon off and part of my brain starts calculating everything I could have gotten done.
The weird part is that this has served me really well.
It made me reliable.
It helped me earn more money.
It helped me grow my coaching business.
It helped me become the guy people trust to handle things.
It helped me collect a lot of 5-star reviews (here's one for confirmation)
And it helped me build a s**t ton of confidence in myself.
I can work hard.
I can take on a lot.
I can figure things out.
But there’s been a cost too.
Stress.
Burnout.
Empathy fatigue.
And more than a few friendships and relationships that never got the attention they needed because I was always doing more work, one more thing, finishing something so I could move on to the next.
The last year or so, I've been paying more attention to this.
A strength can still become a problem when you don’t know how to turn it off.
I’m writing this while waiting for church to begin. Which is pretty funny when you think about it.
I had 20 minutes to sit quietly. And I couldn't do it.
20-minutes?
Cool cool
We should make content.