You’ve been cranking away for YEARS now. It never seems to end.

So when are you taking time to bring back your energy, your passion, your soul? Are you instead spending half the weekend worrying about work or vegging out in front of TV or social media?

That’s not rejuvenation. A renewal means stepping away for long enough that it makes a deep difference.

Now that I’m managing my own company and an unclear balance between work, organization commitments, and a theoretical retirement, I’ve found this is both more complex and more simple.

I love the fact that I can often decide on short notice to blow off a day and do things I enjoy. I’m much more in control of my time.

Yet, I have many more tasks to juggle and unpredictability in every week. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don’t. And I’m not really taking vacations in the traditional sense – haven’t done that since 2018.

But it’s necessary and important to take serious time away, living life rather than doing a job.

And if you have employees, don’t they need that too?