vacation

If you’re like my husband, you don’t go on any vacation without your laptop and Wi-Fi. He finds it hard to shut off when we travel, which sometimes makes me crazy. After all, I live for those days or weeks when I can turn off my work life and recharge with my family.

So who has the right attitude? My workaholic husband, or me, the happy-go-lucky vacationer?

While I’d like to say I’m the right one (I always am), I have to admit: it depends. Not every business is one that can be shuttered for a few weeks while you frolic on the beach. And not every business owner is comfortable leaving her company in the hands of others.

Here’s what you should consider before deciding what’s right for you. Read more

My eight-year-old is in year ’round school, so he gets all of April for Spring Break. Yea. A month. I know.

The first few years, I struggled to retain my status as Cool Mom and take him to every museum and theme park in San Diego,  while struggling to get all my business work done. It was hard. But since then, I’ve learned to relax, shift around my schedule, and gasp have a little time off.

Why Are We So Hard on Ourselves?

I realized recently that we or at least I are our biggest critics as entrepreneurs. We think we have to work harder than we sometimes need to. We’re reluctant to take off an hour or day in case some catastrophe happens. But usually it doesn’t. That’s why I have a light schedule all of April each year. And guess what? There are never any marketing emergencies when I’m at the beach enjoying family time!

Find the Space  You Need

My husband, on the other hand, never takes off. Even on vacation, he’s right there with his laptop, like CorpNet writer  Howard Greenstein. But when he needs to be fully present for us, he is.

For me, my light month of work happens because I do a lot of blogging in March to cover what I’d normally be writing in April. It means doubling up on work for a few weeks, but the reward is that I hardly have to do any work this month. It feels a little like cheating! Read more