This was the first year in… well probably my adult, professional life that I didn’t have to do any work.
Didn’t meet with any clients.
I checked a few emails here and there. Tidied up a few projects and caught up on a few to-dos early in the morning when habits had me up well before dawn.
For some, that may have been too much. I even thought about avoiding it all just out of principle.
It’s not truly a vacation if you’re not completely unplugged and doesn’t even have to think about a work-related task, right?
But the biggest blessing of my vacation was that it wasn’t an end in and of itself.
I didn’t HAVE to do any work. I wanted to. It actually felt good to check a few things off my list.
And ultimately, vacation wasn’t just a momentary escape from drudgery. I love what I do.
But a vacation does give me the chance to step back, rest, and reflect. Reflect on a lot of things, but certainly among them was the future and my work.
We don’t let the land lay fallow because it has “earned a break.”
It goes unplanted with a point and purpose – recovery, regeneration, revival. Restoration of its fertility.
It’s not barren while fallow. It’s still actively growing things – just cycling those nutrients back into the soil rather than into produce.
So, I suppose the real question is not whether you do any work on vacation – it’s, do you want to, is it regenerative, and are you intentionally making the space to rest and reflect on why you do it?
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