For the last week, I’ve been on a “vacation.”
I put that in quotes because the longer I run my own business, and the more time that passes where I am my own boss (most of the time), I find the old adage to be true. When you run your own business, there never really is a day off from professional pursuits.
I think the days of being totally unplugged on vacation and separated from my daily life at home are way behind me.
Here’s the deal. My personality tends to fall into extremes. If I love something, I love it with gusto, until I’m pretty much living it. I can easily become a workaholic without even thinking about it. It’s like an internal voice inside my head pushes me to go, go, go all of the time, until before I know it, I burn out. In the past, this hasn’t had pretty results. I haven’t handled the “work/life balance” very well. Some years, I didn’t take vacations at all, and other times, I would take a vacation only to find myself working the entire time I was supposed to be on a break.
Sara Celi 