07/06/2026
We used to joke about my grandfather's motto all the time:
"I don't hurry and I don't worry."
Like it was almost annoying how calm the man was.
He went to bed early and woke up before the sun without an alarm
even though he had retired years prior.
I think about some of this constantly now, in this line of work.
Because most of us are the opposite — always hurried, always worried,
and we've made peace with that being "just how it is."
He'd probably think this whole industry (the one I work in)
was kind of ridiculous.
He was no sleep expert but he'd tell anyone: "Just go to bed. There is no point falling asleep in the chair and letting the TV watch you when you have a perfectly good bed right there."
But here's what he actually had that we're all chasing:
he genuinely was not going to be hurried,
there wasn't much he worried about,
and he rested without guilt.
We didn't lose the ability to do that. We lost the permission.
I'm on a mission to help people find it again.