Vacation
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What does Vacation mean? 1) a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday 2) a part of the year, regularly set aside, when normal activities of law courts, legislatures, etc., are suspended. 3) freedom or release from duty, business, or activity. I can see any of those definition fitting to what I feel now that I am off for a month. But, what do you call a vacation when you don’t really stop you just pullback.
As you get your business going you’ll find out you’ll never have a vacation again. Not in the way most Suckers feel about vacationing. Like they got out of that big meeting because they will be vacationing in Bermuda. Nope! From this point on when you have your own your vacation only consists of finding a window when you can pull back from making money. This game is full time all the time, no holidays, no bathroom breaks. Shit, whenever I travel I have to get my calls forwarded to my cell, I make sure I have internet when I get there and I wake up like I’m always on the West Coast no matter where I happen to be that night.
Money doesn’t sleep and neither will you when you know it’s worth it to catch them all. I bought a blackberry so I can easily reply to emails, I have old employees who I have made deals with to cover me if I can’t get to a phone and I even have all parts of my business ready to take over and go the extra mile just in case they don’t hear from me. So really do I ever take a vacation the way others do? Nope!
Shit, I even wrote this post in November in anticipation of me taking a break from writing the blog. So did I take a vacation? Nope! But, I understand that a lot of people don’t care about whether I need a break as long as they got eyes they want something to look at. Now I don’t take it personal as I have trained myself to see money as if I was McDonalds. So if they can stay open even on Christmas to sell you a 99cent hamburger then I’d better remained disciplined.
Look even when you make it to the top and have other cats working for you, you’re still going to check everything. You built it, you locked it and you keep the keys to the game homie. So vacation can only be celebrated after the business day has closed, you checked all your emails, set up what you want your employees to do the next day and stayed at attention eventhough you may be sitting on the beach. It’s the game and there are no days off not even for a much needed vacation.
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I’m so sick wit it that I look forward to Holidays to work because to me they seem to be the MOST peaceful & calming days.
I need counseling, I know
So you see it as a time to catch up huh? I mainly use it as a time to forecast what I should do next. But, it never is a complete forget about everything kind of vacation. I don’t think you need counseling as you realize time is important and you need to take advantage of it. I see why people sell their businesses to do absolutely nothing. You have been at this all day everyday for years and to stop thinking about it might be a peace.
I was done when you said that you wrote this last month in anticipation! But that shows how one must stay prepared and continuously thinking ahead to keep things going without missing a beat. I make lists and check off like one or two major things (depending) but the ideas keep coming and the day keeping going. Any advice on increasing our capacity to make it all work?
Just do everything early. You’ll find you have plenty of freetime if you file your paperwork, overpay your bills, read for reading sake and just maintain a disciplined schedule to life. You get sidetracked because regular life creeps into your productive time. Little shit like washing clothes, getting groceries and the like breakup your mind state to build.
I read a lot and I mean a lot. So I usually increase my capacity by always importing new knowledge. I don’t read anymore searching for something I know read to accumulate knowledge. I let the new ideas stay in my head and for some reason they pop up when I need them. But, if I never read those ideas would never be there. So it seems to help me a lot to have a diverse understanding of all things. I can tie different solutions into my angles that people never thought of. Hope all that helps.
Vacations are for suckers!
Reaching goals and objectives on a daily basis is fun. Constantly creating is life. And if one enjoys creating and building, life becomes a vacation.
The most enjoyable thing anyone can ever do in life is whatever they want and feel at that time. That freedom is what makes the hard times of building worth it. A good job is just a easier time on the plantation but a business of your own enjoys all the plantation produces.