Rest IS the Work 🌳

This week, I’ve taken myself on a “business staycation.” No big trips—just a fresh environment, free from distractions, to balance two essentials:

1. Rest and recharge after recent health challenges for myself and my family.
2. Diving into impactful business initiatives, like launching Virtually Myself®️ (for thought leaders, authors, and consultants) and refreshing Marketing Me®️ for 2025.

I’ve also been running webinars (yesterday’s for the Australian Marketing Institute had 130+ attendees and I hosted it live from a local library in my getaway location!).

I've also been head down, tail up building and shaping new digital products to make my best resources even more accessible.

It’s a lot, I know—and yes, I’m “resting” too. 😉 Because the rest is the work.

So yes, in the last two days I can proudly say I've enjoyed, not one, nor two, but FIVE baths! I think a lot in the water and find it very calming and soothing. And I think one exceeded my previously-held record of 3 hours! (I wrote about that one in my blog last year about The Purple Bath!)

As a founder and personal brand, I’ve learned that my energy isn’t an optional extra—it’s at the core of everything I do. That’s why I’ve given myself this time, not just to “do,” but to be. To reflect, create, and go deep into the work I love, in a way that fuels me for the long haul.

This week has been a beautiful reminder of why doing less, but with intention, often moves the needle further.

So, here’s your reminder: give yourself space. It takes time to organise and plan for, and even then, things don't always go to plan!

Fresh off having spent the weekend at the hospital with one of my boys, it took me two days longer than planned to immerse myself in the big tasks I had set before me for this precious week off the grid.

But that's ok. We can only do what we can do!

Rather than "push through", I decided to just go with it - knowing that on the other side of the rest my remaining three days will be way more productive.

Why?

Because rest IS productive. And when you do lean in, do it with energy and purpose.

So much goodness on the way to you soon - I'm exploring and preparing lots of FRESH ways to help you build your brand, with fun, ease and much inspiration. 

Excited for what’s ahead—stay tuned!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nina Christian is a Marketing Futurist & Global Marketing Mentor who helps people do their marketing in a more human way. 

She is a Certified Practicing Marketer (CPM), Life Member and Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute & AMI State Chair (Vic) and for 20 years was director of Braveda (Winner, Best Marketing Agency, Australian Marketing Excellence Awards).

Several years ago Nina saw the world of marketing shifting – this time as people became their own brands.  With this, she created a new business as a thought leader, combining her expertise in brand building with personal positioning, resulting in a breakthrough praxis known as Marketing Me™.

She has a knack for simplifying the complex which comes from being a hands-on mum to five children, and uses this to turn time-sucking activities into easy-to-follow systems and processes that make a lot of sense and get outcomes fast.

There are different ways to work with Nina based on your situation and organisation size - with all of them you'll see rapid transformation and tangible outcomes fast. Book a chat with Nina here.