When you're on vacation, do you prefer to work or shut down and kind of re-center? I'm just in one or the other, like off or on. On vacation, I generally try and do no work at all. Because otherwise, it's not a vacation. It's just working in a more distracting place.
As business owners, we are constantly faced with the internal and external conflict of achieving "work-life balance". At times we can feel guilty for working too much and at other times for not working enough. We hear the saying to "work smarter, not harder", but how do we know if we're working hard enough? On the contrary, there are people working extremely hard with very little reward for their efforts who may need some time for reflection and planning to gain perspective of the bigger picture.