I’m really bad at taking time
away. I mean real time away where I’m
completely out of touch and can fully recharge - not the run away for a long
weekend but bring your laptop with you kind of away. I need to get better at this – it’s not fair
to my wife and daughter and it’s not fair to me. Brad is very consistent about taking real
time off – he and his wife take one week a quarter where they go away and
completely relax. I need to follow their
example more.
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Anything I do that is fun is a vacation. By that measure I've spent most of my life on vacation. On the other hand, having nothing to do for 48 hours or more would be more like solitary confinement. Not really fun, more something to get past. I had a spring spent in south eastern Oklahoma that was kind of like that--definately not a vacation.
Don't forget that to really, fully recharge you may need to leave both the laptop and the daughter at home. A wise friend of mine once distinguished between a "vacation" and a "trip" -- the latter being when you bring the kids and/or when you visit relatives. In a real vacation, the whole point is to reduce your set of responsibilities to eating and remembering your room key...