Success in Sweatpants

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Taking time off is not something to put on the bottom of your to do list. It is imperative. For your business, for sure. For your life in general, no question. We need to keep our perspective. We need to recharge our batteries. Time off gives us the brain space to remember why we are doing what we’re doing.

• Main Topic – Give Yourself a Breakhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB124935067214603495.html?mod=djemSB#articleTabs%3Darticlehttp://blog.businessownerstoolbox.com/do-i-have-to-work-all-the-time/
• Quick Biz Tip -
  • Ongoing things to do to get time off
    • Set boundaries in your business and for yourself.
    • Declare your business hours.
    • Take weekends off from work.
    • Take break in your work day and do something “un-working”
      
  • Things to do from time to time
    • PLAY HOOKY! Do something fun during a “normal” work day – spa day, movie, sightseeing
    • Can’t travel? Stay home on vacation. Take a week off and stay at home…
      
  • Things to start now to help later
    • Start the process of getting help (peers, outsourcers)
    • Create an operation manual for your business.  Start recording your business processes …write down how you do things as you do them …and collect your notes in a specific folder. After you have collected a good pile of notes, you can go back and organize them into a manual that can be used by someone else in your absence.
• Resource and Network
  The resources and network recommendations for this topic are between your ears. Get creative about how you take and use time off. Search the web for special events that are within your local area that you can use as getaways. Stretch your thinking out to your network and work out who you can get to support you in different ways to help you take a little or a lot of time off.