Planning time away from work or career

No matter what your career path may be, sometimes you just need a break.  You can love your job more than any other position in the World but a much needed break from work can be the biggest stimulus to your productivity.

I could personally work 7 days a week all day long and still have things left over to occupy time.  I have to make a choice to stop working and sit down with family and friends and take breaks.  My work can overpower my life if I let it get to that point.  The goal is to notice that time away is the best time for your business to refresh life.

Time away could be anything from an hour where you turn off all communications, a date night, or a week or more on vacation.  Just remember that when you leave your job, to literally leave your job.  No work while you are on vacation.  The phone will ring and the emails will come in but you will have more energy to concentrate on the objective.

My career path is photography and I find it difficult to set down the camera and enjoy a vacation without photographing everything.  I have to remind myself that the time is for me and my family and friends.  Time for me, this is what I keep reminding myself.

When you take time away as a photographer you realize the things that you want to photograph compared to the things that you think you want photographed.  How many of your take a million images that you never use?  I have in the past but not I realize what I really would like photographed and document those moments.

The bottom line, life is long and you never know when your time will come so take time away from your career and spend it with the people you love.

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