I am recently back from a two-week vacation. Two weeks IN A ROW! I Can’t remember when I last did that. Perhaps only one other time in the last 26 years or so of business. I think that is crazy, never taking the time off that I am entitled to and hardly ever taking even two weeks off in a row. How many weeks a year do you get off and how many do you actually take? How many weeks in a row do you take off? How many emails or other work-related tasks do you do each day when you are on vacation?
As someone explained to me once, a two-week vacation is not just twice as much, but more like four times as much restful time than one week alone. During a vacation it takes me several days to fully wind down from work mode and at a few days at the end to gear up for work again. If you take a week off, that leaves only a couple true, deep relaxation days in the middle where you are 100% on vacation, at best.
But if you take two weeks, that is an entire seven more days of real R & R. That is 350% more ‘real’ vacation time than one would experience taking only one week at a time. Go ahead, do the math.
I am convinced that taking vacation time enriches one's work and one's life. If one’s life is healthy, one’s work prospers. Take the time to smell the freakin’ flowers, eh?
