Kevin Bell

Can entrepreneurs take vacations?

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Can entrepreneurs take vacations?

I went in a vacation last week and… I didn’t vacation very well…

I’m just going to come right out and say it— I didnt “shut work down” as well as I needed to.

I was on my phone far more than I wanted to. I took one call that I shouldn’t have taken. I went down rabbit holes that I didn’t need to go down. Overall, I’d give myself a C- for my ability to disconnect and be so the my family.

This sucks to say out loud because I really don’t like failing at anything. And while I don’t think this was a “failure”, I DEFINITELY have room to grow.

By the third and fourth day, I think I was in a good little groove of setting my phone down and not worrying about it, but at that point, the trip was almost over.

This next part is more for me, just as a personal checklist of what I could have done better, but I’m sharing it with the hope that it will help YOU better as well.

I’m passionately curious and incredibly ambitious, but there’s a time and place. That wasn’t the time or the place.

Here’s what I would do differently and maybe this will inspire you to make adjustments with your travels as well.

Like I said, I really don’t like that I came up short with this, but in the process I learned a lot.

Odds are I’m still going to come up short again, but maybe I’ll be a little bit better. Or maybe it’ll be a different season and things will be more smooth sailing. Lots of variables.

The point here is that it really is possible to disconnect and enjoy a vacation. But as an entrepreneur, you have to be really intentional about it. It won’t just happen.

Let me know if any of that resonates.