Your Weekly Challenge:

REMINDER: You don’t have to do the challenge! See it as an idea on how to spend your week more productively.

Rest productively this week. List out 5 or more activities that help you feel truly relaxed\happy(i.e. cooking a nice meal) and commit to do at least one of them in your breaks between study\work sessions over this week.

Your Weekly Inspirational Story:

“In 2009, when the biochemist, then 40, went to Kentucky for a wedding, he visited the Maker's Mark Distillery.

During the tour, he couldn't help but notice the similarities between the distillery and his biotech labs.

A light bulb went off.

"I told my wife then and there that I think we should do this," Perkins says. She agreed.

The "this" he speaks of entailed packing up their lives and moving to Utah to start his own whiskey label, High West, where he could distance the brand from the Kentucky pack

—The High West Saloon & Distillery is the only place in Utah where you can buy a bottle of whiskey on a Sunday—and where he and his family could "up our skiing game."

"It might seem like it was a spur-of-the-moment decision, but I feel like everything I did in life led me up to that moment," Perkins told Entrepreneur.

"I always wanted to do my own thing, and even when I was working as a biochemist for a larger company, I was an "intrapreneur.'

I pretty much always had jobs where they let me do whatever I wanted to do as long as I asked them. I'm about as proactive a person as you can get."

Perkins' proactiveness paid off.

After 12 years, he sold his successful whiskey to Constellation Brands for a reported $160 million.

[…] He remains an employee and has no plans for retiring. "As long as this is still fun, I'll stick around," he explains. “

Source: https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/this-founder-ditched-his-career-at-40-and-turned-a-hunch/288307

!!!- I advise you to write the answers down on paper, as they help you figure out stuff about yourself, which you might find useful later on!

Reflective-thinking question:

-Have you every experienced the same “Ah-ha!” moment as Perkins? Had it come from hard work or from a time when you rested\were at an event?

Critical-thinking question:

-Do you believe you could make the same decision as Perkins if faced with such an idea? Why or why not?

Your Weekly ‘Food For Thought’ question

What activities\type of work makes you feel the happiest?

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