Is a publishing professional with more than twenty years of

Step 2. rename the Wait
You  speed  through  the  day,  pushing  your  body  and  mind 
beyond fatigue, putting off needed rest . . .
•  until you get home and can finally kick off your shoes and put 
your feet up, or
•  until the kids are fed and bathed and storied and put to bed, or
•  until the weekend, or
•  until the vacation, or
•  until retirement, or . . .
Some of those “untils” never come, of course. And sometimes 
when they do, they come too late to help, because you’ve already 
been pushed past the point where you 
can
 relax.
Meanwhile,  you  may  have  rushed  and  squirmed  and  fretted 
your way through four or five potential rest periods a day.
Rename the wait. Call it a rest instead.
Oh,  what  a  difference.  Waits  are  cold  frustrations.  Rests  are 
warm comforts.
Could you really feel warm and embraced stuck in the middle 
of traffic? Probably not right away. Such a major change in mind-

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set takes some working at and some getting used to. But it can be 
done. Anger and frustration are not inevitable results of waiting.