Working on Vacation

I just got back from seven days in Arizona.  We did a resort in Sedona, visited the Grand Canyon and the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, then connected with family in Phoenix (115 degrees!!)

It was a beautiful, relaxing time with my family, and I’m looking forward to the next time.

Through the course of the week, I also:

answered two emails
had one phone meeting
handled about 35 problems via text and pm
coached a client through a process
planned the schema for a new module on my pos

This isn’t me being a workaholic.  This is me staying grounded.  I’m sure many people need to step completely away, but that’s not for me.  It’s much faster to answer an email that spend my nights worrying about whether the client had this or that problem.  The total time spent:  maybe three hours?  four?  No more than that.  I didn’t set up an office away from office and try to get a jump on any projects.

What I did do is relax and enjoy my vacation even more, because I knew everything was fine, my clients were happy, and I knew what to do next when my feet touched ground in Ohio.

That, for me, was a perfect vacation.  How about you?