I love summertime. I love the sun and the water and everything about summertime. The only thing that is hard about summer is that for every week you take off and every trip you go on you have to carry the stress of coming back home and facing all the work that has piled up while you were gone\u2026so when I returned home last Saturday night after taking a week off to go to Cabo San Lucas and I had to face the pile of mail and the hundreds of unread emails and the phone messages I was struck with the most brilliant idea ever: If we all took the summer off none of us would get behind on work! I know\u2026GENIUS idea\u2026 if I do say so myself\u2026and I do, say so myself\u2026 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
When I sold my company a few years back I decided that from that point on I was going to take every summer off and not work so I could spend every summer going forward just playing with my family. I suppose that was so important to me because during all the years when I was running companies it had been nearly impossible to ever take time off, so I vowed to change that once I finally could. But taking that time off each summer led to another big problem: While you are off everyone else keeps going! And that means your incoming to do\u2019s don\u2019t slow down one bit when your gone, which means that when you get back you end up being forced to make up all that work you took off by having to overwork every time you come back\u2026grrrr\u2026there has to be a better way\u2026<\/p>\n
Which brings me back to my idea of everyone taking summers off! Because if we all take the summer off then none of us are emailing or calling each other and we won\u2019t ever fall behind! Yet, as genius as my idea is I regretfully realize that the chances of that ever actually happening are slim to none, so the only other thing to do is delete everything that came through while you were away and start fresh \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Okay\u2026okay\u2026perhaps that would be a little too extreme, but I gotta tell you that today I came this close to doing just that.<\/p>\n
I suppose the message I am really trying to convey here is that I don\u2019t have a good solution for making life easier when you come back from taking time off\u2026heck the only solution I can come up with at this point is to simply apologize for everyone whose emails I\u2019m not getting to and apologize for anyone\u2019s phone messages that aren\u2019t being returned and to ask all of those same people to PLEASE take a little time off yourself!<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s hoping I\u2019ll eventually catch up\u2026like in the fall when the sun isn\u2019t shining and the lake isn\u2019t calling \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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