Day 7: Take Your Vacation & Get Rest

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A lot of us are driven people. I ascribe to the notion of taking no days off, especially in business.  You can lose time and positioning to your competition, as well as your peers at work.  Yet the best of the best take days off, and for sure take vacation.   

First of all you will be well rested & you perform better that way.  You mind is clear, your response is sharp and you can endure those unexpected long days and nights at the office.  I personally give 100% every day and leave nothing on the table at the end.  Its hard to run on that octane day in and out, you can and will most likely burn out.  

 Next, you can enjoy the time away from the “controlled chaos”.  Many if not most successful people in business find, discover better ways to do things, or have an epiphany about the direction they need to go when well rested and credit that to being away.  Its almost another way to work on your business, vs in your business.   

Additionally, you can test your business partners & staff.  If you are doing a great job in preparing them, and making sure they are in the right positions, they will excel, making you proud.  The mark of true leadership is how they do after you are gone vs. while you are there.   

Furthermore, taking vacation helps you realize what’s important.  Your family and friends are what you work hard to support in most cases, so why not stop and spend that time that you have earned with them and enjoy doing some of the things you always wanted to do.  That time is the most precious, and most of all helps put in perspective what is important in life.  So when the vacation comes around this year, or you time to take it comes up, the work will be there when you come back, those memories that you could have wont if you skip out on your vacation.