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Why skipping your vacation could be sabotaging your success
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Today I’m going to tell you how sipping pina coladas poolside can save your life. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the past few months have been stressful. Running a company, being the primary parent, bringing home the dough, being pregnant and never seeing Jonathan was really starting to wear me down. I was at the point where I knew that if we didnt take some time for us, our marriage, my sanity and my work were going to take a huge hit.
I know I’m not alone in feeling this way. I’m guessing you’ve felt this way before, and maybe do right now. Well, we’re going to handle this together.
My family growing up was always great at taking vacations, even if it meant piling in the car and driving 3 hours to our friends weekend house in New Hampshire on a random weekend, so I’ve always understood the power of getting away.
I also know how taking a vacation can fall to the bottom of the priority list. How we can feel selfish doing something so extravagant for ourselves. How it can feel too expensive or that we just don’t have the time.
Most people think that working hard and putting in the extra facetime will lead to greater success later, but the reality is that the opposite is true. Today, I want to tell you why not taking a vacation is actually sabotaging your success (in work, relationships and your body) and what to do about your work life balance.
While I was in Mexico I read Arianna Huffiington’s “Thrive”, a fabulous book that clearly shows through copious research how critical it is to tend to your well being when it comes to your success as a person and a business woman. The statistic that blew me away the most was that women who have stressful jobs have a 40% increased risk of heart disease and 60% greater chance of diabetes. WHAT!? That is crazy.
She also goes onto to show how taking time for things like meditation, sleep and vacation significantly increase your overall earning ability, disproving the commonly adopted belief that the harder we work the more we will make.The truth is that, especially as women, the more rested and grounded we are, the more focused, productive and creative we are. I bet as you are reading this you’re thinking, “Duh Sarah, of course.” But are you actually living by this truth? I’m guessing no.
I talk a lot about how to push the reset button by bringing in little breaks and bits of fun during the day. I actually have a whole free challenge devoted to this practice, which you can sign up for here: The Live More Weigh Less Lifestyle Challenge.
And today, I want to help you push a BIGGER reset button on your well-being: vacation. As you know, I am completely obsessed with you and the other women here taking action, so grab a pen and a piece of paper and I want you to answer the following questions….
Now, going through this process is really important, because a lot us can start planning the wrong vacation! Jonathan and I were supposed to go to Israel last week to see his extended family. We were all set to go and a few months ago I had a full fledged panic attack. 24 hours of travelling pregnant with a toddler, a 10 hour time change and needing to deal with jet lag after the trip during the first week of Live More Weigh Less would’ve been debilitating. I love his family so much, and if we could teleport there for a few days it would be amazing, but it was just too much for us, so we opted for a more low key week. We’re excited to make the trip next year when work is slow, and we can have a few days after to sleep and introduce both of our kiddos to the Israeli pack. So, I want you to take a second to make sure that the vacation you are planning is really perfect for you right now. I know it’s not easy to cancel things and let people down, but we have to be so deeply committed to our own soul and well-being because no one else is going to.
Here are some pictures from our trip last week:
So here’s what I want to know, what is the best vacation you have ever taken? Share it below so we can all get some great ideas. And I would also love to know what your dream vacation is and when you are going to take it, so we can help you figure out the details and hold you accountable.
I can’t wait to hear about your big plans.
Love,
Sarah