The Entrepreneurial Savant

There is a good business reason why employers give people vacation time and often require them to use it by a certain date. It’s not just because the employees expect it as a perk of their jobs. Vacation is a time to recharge your engines and regain your long term perspective. It is a time to step off the day to day treadmill, no matter how exciting, and re-orient your life in a different mode. Those of you who are workaholics who never can find time to take vacations are probably getting less real work done than the worker who understands the place of getting away from it all. Workaholism was glorified in the go-go eighties as the way to get ahead. We also coined the phrase, ‘working vacation’, in which you transport your work environment to a more scenic locale. This defeats the purpose of vacationing.
When things are out of control or you cannot seem to make any forward movement, get out of town. The key is to change environments completely for an extended (more than a weekend) period of time. If you work in a rural environment, this might mean heading off to NY or LA for a dose of the big city. For those of us poking at keyboards all day it might mean going out and learning how to climb rocks or developing a physical skill. Even if you just head out to a campsite on a hill and stare at a fire all night, you’re going to receive big benefits. To repeat: Energy, Perspective, Inward Contemplation, Physical Exercise, etc. Successful people make the time to get away.

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