Absolutely:-)

Cathy, I gave up on trying to match your steps long ago. You amaze me! And I know exactly what you mean; competing with ourselves is often worse than competing with others. I still have my Fitbit set to an 8,000-step goal. And I won’t bump it up because I would literally stay up late to make up steps.

And I made myself sick trying to keep myself on track this past week. Yesterday, I came close to taking it off and putting it away. Really. I’ve achieved a lot of my fitness goals, so why do I need it exactly? Oh, I know. So I can drive myself insane and worry about my sleep totals (yep, same as you).

I love your semi-retired status, and it’s the next thing I aspire to. I love how you put it — hit reset on your career and your life. It’s okay to stop measuring everything and just enjoy it, right?

Shortly before last year’s 3-Day, my newest Fitbit was getting all wonky. To make a very long, bad customer service story short, I had it replaced. It took over a month to receive it. I got it in January and haven’t put it on yet. I plan to start up again in March.

I took a much-needed break from it. I find I am super competitive with myself. I routinely tracked 100,000+ steps a week. I was also obsessing over the sleep tracking. Probably lost sleep over it. 🙂

Now to bring this back to freelancing. 🙂 I also took a much-needed break from my blog and other freelancing activity. As you know, Lori, I am semi-retired from business writing but had such big plans for other activities. I’m also a caregiver to an almost 97-year-old mother (and an almost 2-year-old puppy). 😉

I definitely had to learn how to hit reset. We are so tough on ourselves and some times you simply need to give yourself a break. I am glad I did.