 Greetings my esteemed audience! I am checking in from a beautiful winter forest now perhaps you hear it in the background some snow falling from the trees and it's actually raining a bit so a bit warmer hopefully the temperature cools down a bit over Christmas so we can maintain this nice white landscape. Either way I thought to share my plans for this Yuletide for this Christmas and in sharing said Christmas plans I'm also sharing a valuable teaching when it comes to health and productivity so I will use a training examples to illustrate my point back in the day when I was a young man now I'm a venerable ancient as I said I'm 3400 years old but in my younger years I literally had to force myself to rest from the gym because of course I wanted to go to the gym but I had to force myself because I knew that sometimes you need to slow down and rest otherwise you will you will train too much maybe and you will train suboptimally because the body itself not necessarily the muscles but the skeleton and ligaments they need a rest you can take a deload week and that simply means that for a week you reduce all weights in half but you train as usual or you can just take a rest week not to train at all you need to do this sometimes to recover the body so you can train hard in the in the time to come now when we're talking about productivity perhaps you are an entrepreneur or a student or whatever whatever you do if you're interested in productivity you can view your own work in a similar manner that you take a break from being productive so you can be more productive later on so on a personal note I know I have a lot of things to do a lot of things to do mainly with logistics in January so I'll have a lot of work to do so what do I do yes I slow down I take it easy in December I rest up and you know forcing myself to not be as productive now so I will be hit by a rush of a yearn to be productive in January I've done this many times before and I know it works really well for me that I build up an energy I recharge myself so much so that when the time comes usually in in the beginning of January then I've done so much so many non productive things that I have charged up my motivation to be productive and then I just unleash it and be and yeah I get a lot of things done so that is something you can keep in mind so if you ask my Christmas plans and I say that yeah I will try Age of Empires 4 because of course I grew up with Age of Empires 2, Age of Mythology and Age of Empires 3 so I want to try the fourth game I want to play some Assassin's Creed, some Skyrim, I want to read The Siege of Terra, Dan Abnett's latest book all of these things you might ask at a first glance how do these things how do me playing Skyrim how does that help in achieving my goals of imposing my will on the world and yeah again achieving my long-term goals it doesn't help in the short term but I'm not playing a short term game I'm playing a long term game so I need to look out for myself in the long run in looking out for myself I'm also looking out for my family so you need to pace yourself in order to set a high pace later on so that is how best I can explain you know gaming as a husband and father who is quite productive otherwise how can he then sit down to game how is this possible well that is the explanation that you use that time to build up a motivation in you to train harder no not train harder work harder so I'm I'm using the same example here training or working it's the same thing so if you if you haven't trained for a week and you're really into the gym or whatever it might be it might be Jiu Jitsu you might be bitten by the Jiu Jitsu bug so you really feel like training Jiu Jitsu all the time and you haven't trained for a while and then you have that journey to get back to it and that will make you train with more enthusiasm same thing in the gym and now and now in this particular example we have productivity when it comes to a business or whatever it might be so that is my plan to force myself to not be productive so be with a family be with the girls read fiction books so not my usual books I've read over the last two years so I'm taking a break from all of that just relaxing a bit more and then come January I believe at least I haven't decided yet but I believe I will start June maxing so reading the works of Carl Jung maybe I will start planning my own next book who knows we will see but the main point is that taking it easy so I can work harder later on and yeah try it yourself if you are in that position and also do try to if you are on on X a lot and you consume a lot of black pills try to take a break from that too you know if you want to participate in the metapolitical game for a long time you need to pace yourself as well you can't constantly bombard your mind with the West is falling imagery so yeah take a break from it as well and then you can get back to it in during next year now lastly for anyone who has ordered something at legugloria.com first and foremost I salute you for supporting my beloved company this is a prototype by the way for a wool scarf will be out next year great stuff great stuff indeed I also salute you for placing an order of some good stuff because the products they hold the highest quality I'm very proud to say so I salute you now a heads up though in Christmas time during the during the entire December and early January actually the postal system is completely mugged by the share volume of orders so if your package it doesn't arrive in time for Christmas there isn't really much I can do on my part I don't send the packages out myself so I can't sign the books either and you will get a tracking when the when the order has been sent out so but yeah expect some delays expect some postal chaos some logistical chaos I've been through this a few times before so I know that December is quite chaotic indeed so do keep that in mind and of course I am the customer support on both you to name nutrition and league and now of course I am the customer support on legugloria and you to name nutrition I like to interact with the customers myself give me a few days over Christmas I might be a bit slower to respond to some emails because I want to as I said take a bit easier but yeah I'll get back to all emails as soon as as soon as possible anyway after Christmas that is so good stuff good stuff I hope you will also have a harmonious and peaceful Christmas I hope I will have it you never know but I hope for it at least now in terms of productivity I will make of course the monthly podcast episode it will be about the cult of Amithras so that will be nice to make so that will be my productivity for the end of the month and if you aren't already subscribed to the podcast do so check it out I go a bit more in depth in in my discussions so I pick a topic elaborate on it and then I in the beginning of each episode I talk a bit about training biohacking some updates some some politics everything like that so do check it out link in the description box below now thank you for watching and thank you for your support EXO so boom