The other day, my wife looked at me and said something I didn’t even know I needed to hear: “Give yourself grace.” She told me it was something she had to remind herself of that morning too. She said she felt like God, by His Spirit, was encouraging her spirit with those exact words, and now she was passing them on to me.

That day, I felt off. Just… blah. I wasn’t up and at it like I usually am. I didn’t worship. I didn’t read my entrepreneur book the way I normally do. My stamina was low. My eyes were blurrier than usual. Everything felt off rhythm. Nothing seemed to be going right.

But when I looked back at the day, it actually wasn’t that bad. In fact, I had knocked out almost everything on my to-do list, four out of six things, to be exact. That’s more than half! And honestly, I’ve been thinking about cutting my list down to just three big tasks a day anyway. The one thing I missed was listening to a podcast. I read the book but didn’t get to the podcast, and somehow, in my head, that made me feel like I failed.

We do that sometimes, don’t we? We blow the small things up until they overshadow all the progress we actually made.

That same evening, one of my students from The Ground Up Academy messaged me like she usually does. She asked how my day went, and I told her exactly what I just shared. She said, “Wow… I feel the same way today too.”

So I told her what my wife told me: Give yourself grace today.

The next day, she messaged me back and said, “Tell your wife I said thank you. When I said those words out loud, ‘Give yourself grace today’, it was like everything heavy fell off of me.”

Let me tell you this: if you’re having a rough day, if things feel off, or you’re just not hitting your usual marks, give yourself grace. God is giving you grace today, so why not give some to yourself?

Then wake up tomorrow and go at it again. Keep moving forward. Don’t stop.

God Bless The Entrepreneur®️