The Easter holidays are here with us again. This year, they coincide with the last weekend of the first quarter of the year. This is significant in several ways as I shall demonstrate in today’s article.
For Christians, the Easter holiday is significant in the sense that it is the season that Christ paid the full price on the cross for the atonement of our sins. Coincidentally, it also happens to be the Holy month of Ramadhan for the Muslims, when they take a full month of prayer and fasting. The fast shall break sometime in mid-April.
This season offers a long weekend to break from work get a rest and connect with things of the spiritual realms. Those who follow this blog faithfully would already be aware from my earlier postings that there is a lot of spirituality in matters of money and wealth.
Evidentially, rest and play are neatly interwoven into the game of money and wealth. Here are key reasons why you should take this season’s break from routine work seriously:
- Prayers maintain your Spiritual, Emotional and physical balance – whichever God you may believe in, what is undeniable is that as humans, we are spiritual beings also. In these moments of retreat to connect with our maker, we get connected to the things of the spiritual realms. Mother nature opens the reservoirs of money and wealth opportunities when we retreat to commune and connect with her;
- Rest restores the operational effectiveness and efficiency of our brains – the greatest asset bestowed on each of us by the creator is our brains. This is the storehouse of any level of money and wealth anyone can ever conceive and accumulate. The conscious part of the brain is wired to take a rest to let the subconscious part of the brain work at its optimal level. No medicine can cure complications associated with a brain deprived of rest and peace;
- Taking a break will save you from preventable depression and restore your emotional balance – we are all familiar with the depression pandemic consuming many Kenyans at the moment. Folks are doing things that border on the behaviours of wild animals, yet this is turning into almost an everyday reality within our communities. It is perfect to take a full rest from work, engage in fun activities, do things that fulfil your passions outside official work or sit idly outside in the evening to admire the sky and nature at its best;
- Great ideas flow when your mind is fully rested – the things you desire and signal your mind to provide will normally appear during this window of rest. As a seasoned writer and trainer, I understand fully about this power. Many of the ideas I share on this page and that I write about on other platforms come during such bouts of rest. Try it and see if it doesn’t work;
- It’s during rest when you can take stock of your achievements – one of the greatest mistakes many of us make is working and earning blindly without taking time to review, take lessons and re-plan. For instance, the first quarter of 2024 is coming to a close this weekend, what have you been able to achieve on your New Year resolutions? How much have you been able to save and invest this quarter? Are you on course towards your annual targets? What lessons have you learned this far in the year? This is the perfect weekend to take stock and review your targets.
In conclusion, it is a good habit to deliberately plan for moments of rest and take stock towards your money and wealth goals. It is also great to reset your soul, mind and body daily to maintain your spiritual, emotional and physical balance. This is because you can only make money, grow wealth and enjoy life in the land of the living!
Otherwise from this page, I wish you a blessed and lovely Easter Holiday!