In need of a vacation but afraid you’ll lose clients or income? My friend Alex Fayle has the answer, and the price is right. Read on:
Planning to Take a Vacation Someday?
Not today, not next month, maybe not even this year – someday, when the business allows it, right?
The best part of being a freelancer is choosing our own hours. Unfortunately the worst part about being a freelancer is choosing our own hours. Far too many of us choose to work all the time. I don’t just mean 10 to 16 hour days, I mean seven days a week, every week of the year, maybe taking a weekend off here and there.
We do that because we want to build the business, because we have to do it all and because we love freelancing.
Oh, and because we want to eat. We like being able to eat.
But what type of job expects people to work without a holiday? You wouldn’t accept it from a salaried position, so why do you accept it when it comes from within, when you choose not to take vacations?
You don’t have to be that way. Most people actually do better from a rest. We recharge our creativity, show our clients that we take the time to care about ourselves (and them), and we avoid the burn out and sickness that working 365 days of the year will cause.
But how? How can we create a business life that includes vacations? We barely get it all done with the little time we have – how can we take time off? How can we make that sort of commitment?
Don’t worry, there’s help. Alex Fayle over at Someday Syndrome has developed a free mini ecourse on learning how to let go of the reins of your business just long enough to avoid killing yourself with work.
By signing up to the Freelancer Vacation Clinic you’ll get a short weekly email with just one tip on how to create the mental, emotional and temporal space for the vacation you deserve to take.
Signing up does not commit you to that vacation – it just opens the door to the possibility of relaxing.
You like the idea of relaxing, don’t you?
Then check out the Freelancer Vacation Clinic and start planning your downtime.
Is it bad that my first thought was “But I don’t have time to take a mini e-course about taking a vacation!”
I headed right over and signed up. I can’t let this madness continue!
@Jennifer
The best part about this course is you don’t get homework – there’s nothing to do except read the email and let the words float around your brain.
I’ve signed up, and I’m looking forward to receiving the e-mails.
I admit that I worked way too much for far too long without taking a break. And I was stubborn and wouldn’t listen to anyone who warned me that I was going to burn out (including Deb). I didn’t burn out exactly, but I did have a major health scare a couple of months ago. Let’s just say that when you need to go to the ER with severe chest pains, you re-evaluate things in a hurry. I didn’t have a heart attack (thank goodness), but I am still recovering from a medical condition that is painful and causes shortness of breath if I walk very far. I’ve learned my lesson, and I have a much better schedule and I take breaks now.
Please don’t wait until the Universe gives you a thump on the head before you start looking after yourself well.
@Jodee
Sorry to hear about the health scare, but glad you’re taking better care of yourself! That’s some great advice you’ve added! Thanks.