Ep 434: Taking Vacations Is Good For Your Career (Really)

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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We’re smack dab in the middle of one of the hottest summers on record and although the heat can make many of us go a little crazy, it also forces us to slow down a lot, spend some time by the pool or the beach (or in the comfort of your living room with the AC on full blast) and embrace boredom more. Celeste Headlee, author of, “Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving,” joins us to talk about why taking all of your vacation days is good for your career and how to really disconnect when you’ve turned on your OOO. Takeaways: Embracing boredom and taking time for rest and relaxation can lead to better ideas and improved creativity. Taking vacations is essential for overall well-being and can lead to career success. Finding the best times for focused work and understanding our own productivity patterns can improve efficiency and work-life balance. Younger generations are rejecting toxic work culture and prioritizing work-life balance and well-being. Defining personal goals and focusing on end goals rather than means goals can lead to greater happiness and fulfillment. It's important to reevaluate priorities and find a healthy balance between work, rest, and personal fulfillment. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:35 Embracing Boredom for Creativity 7:17 Importance of Taking Vacation Time 13:15 The Three-Pronged Influence on Work Guilt 19:18 Gen Z's Preference for Analog Solutions 22:14 Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation 26:58 Transition to Mailbag Segment 29:37 Retirement Investments 32:10 Pre-Retirement Financial Checkup 34:45 High Yield Savings Accounts Have a question for us? Write to us at [email protected]. While you’re at it, join the HerMoney community! For the latest episode drops and financial news you can use, subscribe to our newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! Thank you to Gainbridge® for supporting the HerMoney podcast. Gainbridge® created ParityFlex™, a multi-year guaranteed annuity, to offer women security and flexibility at a time when they need it the most—retirement. Learn more about ParityFlex™ here. The HerMoney with Jean Chatzky podcast is sponsored by Edelman Financial Engines. The podcast team and its host are neither employees nor clients of EFE, however, the show does receive fixed compensation and is a paid endorser and therefore has an incentive to endorse EFE and its planners. To learn more about the sponsorship, please visit PlanEFE.com/HerMoney. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to advertise on our podcast, and to learn more about Airwave, head to www.airwavemedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0	Hey everyone, I'm Jean Chatsky. Thanks so much for joining me today on her money
0:47.0	where we talk about how personal finance and money touches everything in our lives. We are smack dab in the middle of one of the hottest
0:55.7	summers on record. Yikes and I wanted to check in with all of you to see how you are
1:01.4	doing for me, although the heat makes me a little bit cranky,
1:07.8	it has also made me slow down a lot and I have been working on trying to embrace the lazy. I've been making a little
1:18.0	more time to read books that peak my interest trying to go for some long runs at the beach, taking a break from the constant
1:27.2	noise of mostly news, let's be honest, to give myself a little more time to think and it's been really helpful
1:34.8	because I've been working on a few writing projects this summer that I'm very excited to tell you
1:40.5	more about soon projects that I really need to tap into my creativity for.
1:47.2	I found some of my best ideas as I've said before come to me during those long runs which is a win because I am
1:58.4	Embarking on the start of training for the New York marathon. I know I've talked about that a lot on the show. I'll say it again and again and again because you all are my accountability buddies. I got to keep myself honest. Embracing boredom though it's really hard. I gotta say it is
2:17.0	really hard for a lot of us to do and that is because there is one thing that Americans tend to value over ease money.
2:27.0	According to a 2023 study from the Wall Street Journal and the National Opinion Research Center, the only priority that has
2:35.4	grown in importance from when they started this survey in 1993 to now is money, which was cited as very important by 43% of respondents up from 31% in 1998.
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