Hey, this is Leo here for actualized.org, and today I want to cover the topic of

vacations and how sometimes taking a vacation is really the answer to all of life's problems. Vacations and also

breaks because the two are basically one in the same just with different

durations. Now, I have a question for you, are you a high achiever?

Do you consider yourself a high achiever?

And if so, how much time are you putting into work, let's say?

Are you putting in over 40 hours a week?

Are you putting in 50 hours?

Are you putting in 60 hours?

Maybe 80 hours? Well, when was the last time you took a vacation from all that and just

took a nice long break? Being a high achiever myself, or at least how I think of myself as one, I've really found that being able to use your time off in a strategic way, whether it's a vacation or a break

throughout the day is really important towards getting maximum performance out of

yourself because, well, frankly, if you're working those 80 hours a week,

you're not going to be able to sustain that forever.

And even if you could, the performance that you're getting out of yourself

is not what it could be if you

reduce the amount of hours and spent more of that time doing stuff that rejuvenated

your mind and your body. So that's where vacations come into play. In fact, the reason I came

up with this topic is that the last few weeks I spent really hammering down on on this

website so I was really doing a lot of work on actualized.org,

writing articles and shooting video and spending a lot of time doing coding and

etc. doing some research and basically I was cooped up in in my in my house doing all

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