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The Beauty of Taking a Vacation

July 5th, 2007

Sometimes it takes a vacation for me to realize how much I need a vacation. We’re just back from a week and a half away, and the world didn’t completely fall apart while we were gone. (I know, I can’t believe it either). Sure, there were a couple of fires, but they were worth every single minute I spent away from the office, which were minutes mostly spent outdoors.

It seems counter-intuitive that taking time off will increase your productivity, but it really does. Operating on a full tank of creative juices and energy is just amazing compared to operating on empty.

So, we’re back to it. I’ll admit I kept up with extremely urgent emails. Even though it was only every few days that I would check in, it did give me piece of mind to know that the world hadn‘t fallen apart.  I can’t say that I see any business owner able to completely “check out”, but I got close.

It was actually a good check for the business too. It gave me the opportunity to see how easily we can hand stuff over to people who don’t know much about the business. We have a lot of work to do in this area, and we really should start documenting all of our processes. Add it to the “to do” list.

So, the whole point of this post is to say “take a break”, you’ll absolutely love yourself for it!!!

          

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