Go Away With These 16 Vacation Quotes

I need  a six-month vacation twice a year

1. A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. -Earl Wilson 

2. Laughter is an instant vacation. -Milton Berle 

3. A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. -Robert Orben 

4. Vacations mean a change of pace, a gentleness with ourselves, a time of rest and renewal, and a time to stretch ourselves and encounter new people, new lands, new ways, and new options. -Anne Wilson Schaef 

5. A vacation is like love: anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. -EVAN ESAR 

6. I have never believed that vacations are luxuries. They are our necessities--just like shelter, clothes, and food, they make us feel like humans and not like animals that care only for survival. -ALEXANDER BABINETS 

7. Vacations are necessities, not luxuries. -LINDA BLOOM

 8. Few vacations are as gratifying as those devoted to personal growth.-PAT KOCH THALER 

9. More than just yearly rituals in which we connect with friends and family, vacations are also exercises in self-definition. In affording time away from the demands of everyday life, vacations disclose what people choose to do rather than are required to do. -CINDY SONDIK ARON 

10. Vacations are seen as an antidote to work. They are medicine, a remedy for counteracting the effects of labor.... Vacations allow us to be away from the job, to change the patterns of our day, to alter our routine, to reconfigure our actions and habits, to rediscover ourselves. -AL GINI 

11. Vacations have become somewhat of a status symbol and a measuring device of how well we're keeping up with the Joneses. This is another path that leads directly into the "Artificial Wealth Trap." While I am a strong advocate of taking time to travel and experience other locales, you must keep in mind that vacations are not long term investments. The strategy here is simple: Do not use your credit cards to finance your travels. You may be living it up in the lap of luxury and relaxation while on vacation but ask yourself how relaxed you will feel when the bills come in. -J. J. CHILDERS 

12. A vacation should be just long enough for the boss to miss you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you. -JACOB MORTON BRAUDE 

3. The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. -MARK TWAIN 

14. Vacations are your best chance in the year to get in some real living, to get out of the job-as-life box, off automatic pilot, and rediscover your passions, enthusiasms, friends, family, and the vitality of partaking in the world outside career brainlock. Social scientists have found that leisure experiences increase positive mood, act as a buffer against life's setbacks, and open the door to the best times of our lives. -JOHN DE GRAAF 

15. The best thing about a vacation is planning it. -ANDREW A. ROONEY 

16. The vacation paradox is the idea that vacations are just something else we're to mark off from our to-do list. But that's not what vacations are designed for. They are designed to be times of meaning and purpose. So when we take vacations, we should be strategic and intentional. -ED YOUNG,

WHY TAKING A VACATION CAN MAKE YOU BETTER AT YOUR JOB

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WE SAY WE WANT MORE TIME OFF, BUT MOST OF US DON'T USE ALL OF OUR VACATION TIME. LIFE WON'T FALL APART IF YOU TAKE TWO WEEKS OFF -- IN FACT, YOUR WORK MIGHT ACTUALLY IMPROVE.

If you’re like me, your desk is decorated with photos of far-away places: a palm-tree-lined beach, a sunrise over snow-covered mountains, a lush Irish countryside. But, while we may all daydream of taking off to an exotic locale, many of us don’t.

A 2014 Oxford Economics Assessment of Paid Time Off in the U.S. showed 42% of employees with paid time off finished the year with unused days, leaving an average of 8.1 days unused.

Small business owners are especially bad at taking time away. According to the 2013 Sage Reinvention of Small Business Study, 43% of small business owners are taking less vacation time than five years ago.

The fact that we don't use all of our vacation time isn’t all that surprising. After all, getting away for a few days or weeks can be overwhelming when it feels like stepping away from the office will create a painful backlog of work when you return.

But what if stepping away from the daily grind made you better at your job?

John Roa, Chicago-based serial entrepreneur and founder of AKTA, a digital engagement consultancy, estimates he travels around 190 days per year either for business or pleasure and says some of his most important business ideas have come to him while sledding down an active volcano in Nicaragua or watching the sunset over the Sahara. Here, he shares how his active travel lifestyle has benefited his companies.

A CHANGE IN PERSPECTIVE

Perhaps it’s eating different food, hearing different languages, or just changing the rhythm of your day, but getting away from home makes you see the world through a different lens.

“When you travel--especially to developing nations or off-the-beaten-track locations--you appreciate how different life is in other areas so when you come back to your normal life you can look at it with a fresh perspective that you wouldn’t have if you were stuck in your office all day,” says Roa.

These fresh perspectives can inspire new ideas or cause solutions to issues you’ve been struggling with to appear almost out of nowhere. “There’s a tremendous opportunity when traveling to allow yourself to think in ways that you normally don’t,” says Roa.

RECHARGE YOUR BATTERIES

Roa uses his holidays to renew his energy and focus. He describes his working life like a glass that fills up slowly with perpetually dripping water--daily stresses, decisions, and pressures of work. When the glass starts to fill, Roa’s thinking becomes clouded and productivity declines.

Travel, for Roa is akin to dumping the water out of the glass. “I come back completely re-energized. I’m ready for new challenges,” he says.

A 2011 Intuit study confirmed Roa’s experience; showing 82% of small business owners who took a vacation experienced an increase in job performance upon their return to work. That renewed energy and positivity is contagious and can help the entire team be more productive.

EXPAND YOUR BRAIN

Travel can be akin to taking a course in a new subject, providing an opportunity to flex the mind and create new opportunities for new learning, new ideas, and stimulating new neuron connections.

PUSH BEYOND YOUR COMFORT ZONE

Whether hiking the Inca trail or spending a week in the middle of the Sahara, travel can push you out of your comfort zone; a skill Roa says has been essential in helping him grow his business. “[When you start or] grow a company, you’re breaking out of borders. You can only grow a company so far by never leaving your comfort zone,” he says.

FIND INSPIRATION

The inspiration for Roa’s nonprofit organization, Digital Hope was found on a trip to Iceland. “I spent a couple of days completely alone in the countryside. I was looking at these incredible landscapes and walking across glaciers and I could feel my brain was processing things differently,” says Roa.

While starting a not-for-profit had been on Roa’s mind for years, his trip to Iceland provided the uninterrupted time to focus and think it through. Those few days resulted in a plan that became the business model for Digital Hope. “It was all spawned by allowing myself to be in an environment where I could think in a whole new way that wasn’t the conference room,” says Roa.

CREATE NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES.

For introverts who cringe at the thought of attending networking events; travel, especially solo travel, can help you become a natural networker. Travel forces you into situations where you have to talk to others. Roa says he’s learned a lot about his ability to communicate through his travels, especially in areas of the world where English isn’t the first language and you have to rely on non-verbal communication cues to get by.

Source: WHY TAKING A VACATION CAN MAKE YOU BETTER AT YOUR JOB

Have you taken your vacation yet?

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 Have you cleared your annual leave? Are you not going to take time off from work? Leaving your place of work even for a couple of days is beneficial for your well-being. Here are some reasons why a vacation is good for you:

·         Rest and relax: You don’t have to travel, just do what you like going to a movie,  baking or spending time with family and friends. Such activities are able to neutralize the impact of burnout and stress.

·         Healthier: According to Karen Matthews of the University of Pittsburgh's Mind-Body Center, leisure, including vacation, contributed to more positive emotions and fewer negative emotions and depression. It is important to engage in leisure activities, as a way to enjoy life more, and to potentially have good health benefits. Taking your annual leave is such a healthy choice.

·         Inspire creativity: Getting away from work gives you an opportunity to look at things from a new perspective. You get better ideas and more productive when you resume work. You react to problems with energy and resolve.

·         Learn to delegate in your absence: Someone has to do the work for you. It is the best time to hand over your workload and train someone to act on your behalf.

·         You deserve it or you work for nothing: You are entitled to it or else you will not be compensated. Take your well-earned rest.

·         Time to ponder: It is also a good time to appraise your direction in life.  Are you getting what you want in life?  How can you do things differently to achieve the desired results?

According to a Chinese saying, the purpose of taking a rest is to allow you to travel a longer distance.