Sitting in a dentist chair · Income Without Burnout

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Sitting in a dentist chair

waiting for my mouth to go numb before getting a crown replaced.

Old fillings removed. Modern 3D tools. Nowhere to rush to, it’s a two hour appointment.

And I am thinking about time.

In a fast paced world, we are taught that income grows when speed increases. Faster decisions. Faster output. Faster scaling. Waiting feels like waste.

But when Income Without Burnout is my focus, I come back again and again to a different idea. One I share in my AI Summit talk and one I have to actively remind myself to practice.

Einstein time.

I learned this concept from Gay Hendricks. The simple version is this: clock time is fixed, but experienced time is not. When you are fully present, time stretches. When you are rushed or resisting the moment, time tightens.

Right now, there is nothing productive I can do. No lever to pull. No shortcut. The body is doing its work on its own timeline.

This is where the lesson lives.

Income without burnout is not built by eliminating pauses. It is built by learning how to relate to them.

Most burnout comes from treating every pause as a problem. Waiting rooms. Slow days. Plateaus. Quiet seasons. We rush past them mentally while our bodies stay put. That split costs more energy than we realize.

Einstein time invites a different move.

Instead of asking, How fast can I get through this?

Ask, Can I fully be here while this unfolds?

In business, this looks like allowing ideas to mature instead of forcing them. Letting systems do the work they were designed to do. Trusting that not every moment needs output to be valuable.

In life, it looks like sitting in the chair. Feeling supported. Letting the moment be complete.

Slowing down time does not mean doing less forever. It means choosing presence so energy stops leaking.

That is how sustainability is built.

That is how income becomes repeatable.

That is how ambition and calm learn to coexist.

Sometimes the most profitable thing you can do is stop fighting the moment you are already in.

It is a good day to have a good day.

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