Lesson 38 was supposed to be in your inbox yesterday at 4pm.
It's been replaced, because around 10 last night I was at my desk doing the final polish on it, and my head started doing the church nod. Chin drops, snap back up, look around like somebody saw.
🙋🏽♂️: "Really, babe?"
Nod two. Nod three.
🙋🏽♂️: "Anna. Just go to bed."
And I swear he sounded exactly like my actual mom, the same way she said it when I was up texting my friends like the group chat was going somewhere.
So I did.
Laptop closed mid-sentence. Nothing scheduled. And here y'all are on a Tuesday, a day late and a dollar short.
*revisits Lesson 25 to get my mind right*
🗣 HEY SIRI, queue up "Sweet Dreams" by Beyoncé.
👩🏻🏫 THE MINI-LESSON
go to bed
If you watched the Atlanta vlog, you already saw this lesson before I wrote it.
I didn't sleep the night before, drove all the way down, and the first night I just crashed. Not "went to bed."
Crashed. And woke up from the best 10 hours of sleep of my life.
Sleep debt is real, y'all, and it does not care about your itinerary. When it hits you, it hits you.
Now, I'm a working mom, so I get it.
I know, and every mom, worker, caregiver, and busy founder reading this knows, that sometimes you can't just lie down. Sometimes it's a push-through night.
A push-through night has a real deadline, work that still has to get done, and nobody else who can do it. That's a different animal, and I have a whole system for it, built by the same husband who sent me to bed. I'll get into the details in a later lesson.
Last night wasn't that. I love teaching my business fam, but if it's not one of the 3 Fs, it can wait. (More on the 3 Fs later too lol.)
The work was done, and the only thing left to push through was me.
So this is about knowing which type of night you're having.
The original Lesson 38 was written. And it was a doozy!
POV your business Mom sitting on golden advice to get it juuuuuust right
Months of thinking, already on the page. All it needed was a final read and a clean send, and I was too tired to do either one well.
I had to call it a night.
I'd rather send it to you reliably next Monday, rested, and give you a quick one today, than rush something I've been sitting with for months.
Because I told you in Lesson 37 that some of y'all are confusing urgency with priority, and I was not about to be some of y'all a week later.
The send time was urgent. The lesson being good was the priority.
And here we are :)
Honestly, I've been building up to this one for a while. Let’s pull up the receipts.
🧾 THE RECEIPTS
you’ve been known you need to rest
For those of you unfamiliar with Southernese, that means you have known for an extended period of time that you require rest.
…and so did I
A tired decision feels like a decision. It's usually just a waste of time… or a terrible mistake.
The work will be there in the morning. Make sure you are too.
So this lesson is short on purpose, because I took it too.
GO TO BED.
POV you reading this lesson
I mean it!
✌ until Monday—
If you can't tell whether it's "push through" or "go to bed," it's go to bed. Push-through nights announce themselves.
Tired is not a personality. Rest is not a reward.
Drink some water before you lay down. You know who you are.
p.s. The lesson you were supposed to get is coming next Monday.
I still owe y'all a dance, and I'll be well rested for it.
p.p.s. I refreshed my website and she’s kinda cute. Full update coming in 2027.
The yourbusiness.mom site is next 😏
After all, I’m gracing thee Annie-Mai’s laptop now, so I should do this new site traffic some justice while we grow our lil’ business fam.
