| Take your offered vacation time and use it. | | | | alone pay for it. Well, actually paying for it does |
| Does this advice make you cringe? Do you | | | | not have to be that hard. The point of a vacation |
| struggle to get away from work? | | | | is to relax and enjoy yourself, and there are |
| Why is that? Why do some people have such a | | | | many ways to do that, including some options |
| hard time taking a vacation? | | | | that are extremely cheap. |
| First of all, relax. We're not here to make you feel | | | | "But what about the time," you say. "How can I |
| guilty or anything like that. We just want to help | | | | make the time for a vacation?" Well, didn't you |
| you think clearly about what's really going on. | | | | start your own business so that you could be |
| It can be hard to get away from work | | | | your own boss? Have you now become a slave |
| There are certainly circumstances that make it | | | | to your own business? |
| hard to take a vacation. Maybe you have a boss | | | | Now I know that running a business is tough, and |
| that's tough to deal with, and he gives you a hard | | | | it's not easy to make time for a break. And |
| time about taking vacation. Maybe there's nobody | | | | getting away for a while is going to affect you |
| else who knows how to do your job, so it's hard | | | | financially. (But working continuously until you |
| to get away because nobody can cover for you. | | | | break down is going to affect you too.) |
| Maybe you work for yourself, and you don't get | | | | The truth is that there are ways to get away |
| any vacation unless you make it happen and you | | | | from your own business. In fact, there have been |
| pay for it. | | | | many ideas published to deal with the many |
| All of these factors make it harder to take a | | | | different obstacles that keep you from taking a |
| vacation (though not impossible). | | | | vacation. |
| But the real question remains: | | | | Fighting for what's important |
| Will you give yourself permission to take a | | | | The key, of course, is applying the same initiative |
| vacation? | | | | that you used to start your business to the |
| "But that's not the question at all!," you may say. | | | | objective of managing your business in such a |
| "It's not about whether I give myself permission! | | | | way that you can take a break and take care of |
| The problem is that I can't take a vacation!" | | | | yourself. You are fully capable of finding a solution. |
| Well, let's think about that. | | | | You know that a vacation is really worthwhile |
| Can you get away for a break from your own | | | | (though it needs to be a relaxing vacation, not |
| business? | | | | just a period of hyperactivity in a different |
| Let's say you've got your own business, so it's | | | | location) - you need some real rest and renewal. |
| hard for you to make time to take a vacation, let | | | | |