Published November 13, 2025
Most Realtors are 2 steps from the emotional gutter…
This glorious photo will make sense momentarily…
Hey Superstar -
If you're 100% at mental and emotional peace with your life in every way, shape, and form, you can delete this email now…if not? I think this is for you.
We will NOT be talking real estate today, and you'll see shortly why I'm so grateful not to be!
This will likely be the longest email I ever write to you…If you don't have 4 minutes that could save your emotional and mental sanity this year, you'll want to bookmark it for later.
I know that most of us were raised to believe that taking time off is a luxury reserved for the rich…
Look at American anxiety, depression, and obesity rates, and you'll find that perhaps the “American Way” isn't working out as well as we'd hoped…
Which is why I'm typing this from the exact spot you see in the photo above - the deck of a home in the “Spanish Valley” of Moab, Utah…
While I don't suffer from the obesity issue, I resonate with the anxiety and depression big time…more on that in a moment...
You may know that my wife, Jen, and I were married on August 2 of this year. It was incredible! Yes, we honeymooned and had a great time.
My “logical, American, go-getter Entrepreneur” brain said, “You can't take a few days away so quickly after your honeymoon…who are you to live like a rich man when, quite frankly dude, you ain't!”
My brain ain't wrong. I did just honeymoon, and I ain't independently wealthy! But I want to be.
And I knew I needed to come up for air from the growing anxiety, anger, and low-grade depression I could feel taking over my nervous system.
To be fair, we didn't pay for the stay; it was a wedding gift, and not a small factor in our decision to come here vs. a staycation of sorts.
The anxiety, anger, and low-grade depression started slowly…the three hardest years in my 20-year real-estate career (and statistically since the early 1980's)....
Too much social media, sloppy sleep, self-judgement about how great I should be doing…it was piling up.
And Jen and I live in two different cities…I don't mean a second home; I mean we literally live in two different towns. It is not easy; there is a lot of back-and-forth, and we've been feeling it.
Finally, my nervous system said, “Hey, Jackass…(in a loving way)...you gotta stop. Just drive away for a few days and recalibrate…”
So we did.
It's 48 degrees under partly cloudy skies and paradoxically invigorating and soul-quieting. Beyond a few roosters and trucks on Highway 191, it's the “quietest quiet” I've experienced in some time…
We watched the entire Northern Lights show play out, start to finish, from the hot tub last night…we both literally shed tears at the miracle unfolding before our eyes.
Jen is downstairs on a call for her Integrative Wellness coaching practice. I'm on this deck writing to you. The birds are chirping, and I can't suppress a smile!
We rode our bikes for 90 minutes before we dropped into town…the sun disappeared on us in the final few minutes, putting the glorious La Sal mountains on a stunning Alpenglow display…
We laughed ourselves into delirium before finally drifting off to sleep…my goodness, how we needed this!
Before we even got to bed last night, I realized how incredibly disconnected I had become from myself, God, and from clarity about my mission in life…
Business, kids, problems, money stress, political insanity, social media, and our phones…
We are literally drowning emotionally…and most of us don't even realize it's happening!
Which is why I'm sitting on this deck this morning…I just…had…to stop.
What I'm not sharing is the Super Bowl-level resistance we experienced trying to get here…you can almost guarantee you'll have that right before every “most important” action you take…I wrote an email about that here.
But we got here. And I'm grateful.
The big punchline…
If no one else is telling you, I will: You aren't worth $#!+ to those around you if you don't slow down long enough to recombobulate! Not your clients, kids, team or spouse.
It's the “put on your oxygen mask first” scenario.
You may not be able to afford (yet) to run away for several days, or at least don't have a friend gifting you a stay in Moab, but you can most definitely put your damn phone down…
Delete social media for a few days. Drive somewhere remote within 30 minutes of your home and spend an entire Saturday staring at the mountains with your phone locked in the car…something!
But if you don't slow down? You probably won't die…not immediately anyway, but you will metaphorically…it's slow and agonizing and I've lived it.
I'm signing off now. Comically, but gratefully, I've got some “real work” to do on a few Real Estate deals and some Larkin Group team leadership now.
I invite you to reply with your target “getaway” date, or any other thoughts you have on what I'm going to call the “slow American death”.
Your coach,
-Jeremy “Glad I Stepped Away” Larkin
435-862-8467
PS - I mentioned wanting to be rich. I want that for you too. Taking time away to become your best is part of that process. #promise
If you want to have an honest conversation about how to make this happen in your business, grab some time with me here.
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THIS IS ALL FREE! 
Finish Strong (A Manifesto to achieve your dreams)
10 Steps to Overcoming Call Reluctance (I review this regularly!)
The “Win Your Week” Framework (Your weekly game-changer)
The Breakthrough Blueprint (How to Get Unstuck)
“Unchained” Podcast: My passion project with my wife, Jen Lambert, a renowned ultra-runner and Integrative Health Coach.
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