#024 - Vacation Reply: Take a Quick Trip

Let’s make this quick since I’m visiting with family in partly-cloudy South Florida.

This isn’t really a vacation even though I do happen to be staying in a splurge-worthy hotel and don’t have any real itinerary for the weekend.

It makes me wonder how I might have made this happen a few years ago: how would my wife and I go on a mid-winter, quick getaway at the last minute? I mean we didn’t book the flights until the week prior and I didn’t have a hotel reservation until we walked up to the front desk and asked for one!

Now the old me of 2 years ago wouldn’t have been able to make this happen.

I wouldn’t have had a 5 day weekend already on the books with nothing planned in advance. (I mean who really wants to wake up early after a rowdy Super Bowl party every year for your entire life! It should be a national holiday, but I digress.)

My schedule, and my desire for more time, allows me to be flexible.

I don’t get greedy; I want my sleep and my peace of mind, while at the same time doing my work and helping patients.

The me of 2 years ago wouldn’t have been able to just say “let’s get some good weather and visit my 17 month old nephew.”

Time is finite and family-time is precious - hence this website, the coaching, and the career change.

Let me encourage you to take a quick trip - take a quick break.

And if you can spend time with your loved ones - even if they are annoying - it will be worth it in the end.

Because no matter your age, you will never be younger or healthier than you are right now, and neither will the loved ones you could be visiting.