Why You Should Take a Vacation - Coaching Success - #493

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Why you should take a vacation: to get into the important, get out from under the tyranny of the urgent, and reset (for work & what is important to you).

Why You Should Take a Vacation - Reset & Relax

Life naturally contains cycles.

You stress yourself in the gym, then you rest to allow recovery and adaptation to occur. Without the rest, there is no adaptation. Without the stress, there is no adaptation. Both contribute to the goal: improvement toward your goal.

After day comes night. Following the cold of winter, comes the blooming and growth of spring, the heat of summer, and the harvest that leads back into winter.

Traditionally, many religions have times of fasting and feasting - and the largest feasts are often preceded by the severest fasts.

If you overreach in training, you deload. Even within a workout, you can lift more weight between sets or run harder on an interval only after you have rested.

We cannot, as humans, grind all the time. It is inhuman.

Why You Should Take a Vacation - Tyranny of the Urgent

You need times to overcome the tyranny of the urgent and prioritize the important.

This includes working "on the business, not in the business." It also includes spending time with friends and family, self-improvement and professional development, leisure and exercise.

Business people and artists build time to allow thoughts to arise in their minds. This may be a daily walk, weekly "no cell phone" days, or quarterly or annual retreats.

Just as we cannot and will not become strong if we were to decide to start a workout today and never end it (sets until you die), neither can we work with sleep, food, leisure, and rest.

Why you should take a vacation (or a walk, a retreat, a break, a day without social media, celebrate a holiday or feast): because you're human.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Barbell Logic.
0:04.7	The podcast where we talk about what it means to experience strength.
0:08.3	And how you can use simple, hard and effective strategies in training and nutrition to improve your life.
0:15.0	It starts with meeting you where you are right now and finding lasting solutions.
0:20.0	Welcome to the show. You're listening to the Barbelger Podcast. I'm your host Matt Reynolds with another
0:36.8	episode of the Coaching Success series and while it's fresh in my mind I want to
0:41.4	talk to you about something that I've heard a lot of pushback about lately on the interwebs, and it's about vacation.
0:48.0	I'm hearing the hashtag rise and grind crew talk about why you should never take vacation.
0:54.4	Like what's the purpose of vacation to take time off and that you lose these weeks of work
0:59.6	that you could be grinding and working 52 weeks a year and it would be stupid to take vacation.
1:05.0	I think that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.
1:07.4	I just got back from vacation in Mexico.
1:09.6	If you know me, you know that my family and I would love to go down there several times a year.
1:14.0	And I want to talk about why I think vacation is actually really important.
1:16.8	And so, first off, if you are one of these people, you've heard it said that I need a vacation from my vacation or
1:24.0	I need a vacation after my vacation you're doing vacation wrong when we set up
1:28.4	vacation we set up vacation to refresh and re-energize ourselves.
1:33.0	And that doesn't mean that we don't go on trips sometimes to, you know, a place like
1:36.2	Washington, D.C. or New York, and it's one of those kind of hustle and bustle
1:40.0	sort of trips.
1:41.8	But we almost don't consider that vacation. For us, vacation is a place that we can go and
1:45.8	unwind and do the things that are really important to us and not be so focused on the urgent.
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