A short first-person monologue about managing stress by prioritizing self-care and maintaining personal energy. The speaker reflects on learning to be alone, creating quiet time to recharge, and the importance of 'fueling' oneself to fulfill multiple life roles effectively.
So how do you deal with stress? I'm learning to deal with it better. I. I need I again, like, I think I've mastered this year on like how to being alone and spending more like quiet space to recharge properly because a lot of it is like, it's taking a real check at like, what does your fuel tank look like? Right. And if I'm near empty, I cannot give the best version of myself to anyone in my life, you know. And you know, I have a lot of roles that I wake up to and a lot of things that can be happening before 6am Right. And so like whether that's mom, daughter, sister, ex wife, owner, operator, like, you know, I have so many people that I'm the nucleus of in a lot of situations that I have to like constantly have fuel. And so running on empty, I've learned this past year is like something I really needed to work on to just like fuel myself, you know. And it goes back to your preceding question on sometimes the solution is yourself.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
