IAM2380 – Unleashing the Power of Rest

Gresham Harkless discusses the importance of maintaining balance in life, particularly when juggling responsibilities and the demands of work, travel, and personal life.

He highlights the challenges of feeling overwhelmed, especially as things change rapidly and more is added to his plate.

Gresham shares taking a nap after a busy day filled with meetings, illustrating how sometimes stepping back and resting is necessary for productivity and overall well-being.

Gresham emphasizes that “you can't pour from an empty cup,” urging the need for rest and self-care.

He discusses his efforts to prioritize sleep as part of his personal goals, acknowledging how better sleep has positively impacted his health and decision-making.

Lastly, he advocates for others to filter out less important tasks to focus on what truly moves them forward.

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Intro 00:00

Are you ready to hear business stories and learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales, and level up your business from awesome CEOs, entrepreneurs, and founders without listening to a long, long, long interview?

If so, you've come to the right place. Gresh values your time and is ready to share with you the valuable info you're in search of. This is the I AM CEO Podcast.

Gresham Harkless 00:28

Hello, hello, hello. This is Gresh from the I AM CEO Podcast. And this is a special episode of our I AM CEO Podcast.

And this is actually going to be a snippet of a snippet, so to speak. I'm just doing an intro because I've been starting to document my journey into starting what is now called Blue Star Franchise.

We're also going to do a kind of sub site within CB Nation called Franchise CEO. So you'll see some links in the show notes related to that.

But just wanted to give you a little bit more insight, give you a little bit more color in some of the aspects of why I'm actually doing this.

Because one of the things I was doing as I was going through training to start up this new business was realizing and hearing from the founder of FBA, the Franchise Brokers Association, that it'd be really cool to document your journey going through and building this out.

I think it's something that would be super helpful, obviously for people that are looking for and thinking about starting franchises.

But frankly, if you're starting anything, any type of business, I think it's really cool to kind of just even see the journey and how it's been going from there.

So I'm going to share a few of those snippets from the, from the first couple of videos that have been created.

But definitely, of course, subscribe to our YouTube, check out a lot more where I figure out exactly where we're going to post this.

So I'll have that information that's available to you. But regardless, if you're a builder, continue to keep building, continue to do your thing.

The world definitely needs exactly what you're trying to build and needs you to be your unique self.

So make sure to run your own race, because nobody can run your race like you. This is Gresh signing out. I hope you have a phenomenal rest of the day.

It's really hard to pour from an empty cup. For me, it's been really kind of tiring just with all the travel and all the information, the new things that I'm learning, new team members, things that we're implementing.

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It's been a lot going on. It's a tremendous amount of change. So yesterday I actually had 2 meetings, 1 podcast, 1 was a meeting that canceled and I actually had to just take a nap.

And it's something that I always say that I should do a lot more, but I've always have a reason why not to do it.

But I even slept a long time last night as we were kind of winding down, getting ready to sleep and you know, go and you were watching a show on Netflix and the power went out.

So couldn't really do much of anything. So I had to go to bed a lot earlier, which ends up probably being like what the body, what my body at least needed.

Sometimes we just need that kind of shut down and reset. And one of the reasons I wanted to bring that up today was just because it just is a great reminder of sometimes tomorrow is better than doing things today.

And as much as you want to check things off the list and do all the things, as you start to have more and more on your plate, you have to be able to prioritize and you have to be able to kind of see the force for the trees.

I think that as you get more, I guess, involved in life or have more responsibilities and things that you're taking on, it's going to be so important to make sure that you are, you are prioritizing the most important things which are going to move the needle forward.

And that's why I really love, I referenced it so many times as well with gear, because for me, it gets me really intentional on the things that need to be done in order to succeed.

And when we get so laser focused on those things, It allows us to make sure that we are moving the needle in the right direction by focusing on the right things.

And one of those big things is our energy. We don't have unlimited energy. We can't pour from an empty cup. Our resources are not, they've run out. That's the best way to kind of say that.

And once we start to understand that and we start to realize that, we know that we have to be very guarded on our energy.

So as I'm getting towards the end of the year, as we might have a new addition on the way before the end of the year as well too, it becomes even more important to say no.

I mean I talk with somebody and I remember this quote is like, no is it, no is a full sentence. You don't have to say no because I this or because I that, just say no. Or say maybe not now or let me think about it.

Those are also things that I've learned that have helped me to make sure that I'm filtering the things that I'm doing to make sure that they are in alignment with what I'm ultimately trying to do.

So with that being said, you want to make sure that you're doing the things that fill you up.

You want to make sure you're being there within and for the things that you can. And I think it's so important for me to definitely do that.

And with that being said, it's not anything that's dire, but it is something that you kind of really have to pay attention to, that you are keeping your cup full.

You do have your oxygen mask on first, and you are doing those things that you need. And sleep is a big part of that.

It actually was one of my 12 week year goals to really focus on my sleep because I did not sleep very well most of the time and that just causes health issues.

It just makes you not in the best place. You don't make as good decisions. So I really prioritize my sleep and I actually started to track my sleep and because that has helped me as far as like doing a better job and I've been better.

Last night, I got a 97. They use this app called Better Sleep and it is a subscription, but at the same time, it's like for the value that it provides, it's huge.

So with that being said, remember that you can't pour from an empty cup. Remember how important it is to make sure that you are resting, that you are prioritizing that rest.

And especially if you are somebody that is a go, go, go type person, the quote unquote hustler and getting things done, you have to make sure that you're kind of stressing yourself on the other end so that you can have that energy to hustle.

But also remember, when you're hustling, make sure you're hustling in the right way. Make sure you're doing the things that actually are pushing the needle forward because it's so easy to do a bunch of things that aren't actually helping you out.

So with that being said, that's it. For today, I continue to kind of take steps forward and move forward and do what I can.

Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help. And of course, look forward to giving you more and more updates.

Outro 06:11

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