Kickstart My Heart
As I am headed back to work today and thinking about how great it was to be with all my family on vacation I’m wondering how to get my mind reengaged with life, how to kickstart my heart again if you will. If you take a vacation well, I believe you should disconnect yourself from work as much as you possibly can. If I am on vacation but constantly worried about work and things that I have already gotten covered, I’m not getting much of a break from one of the main things that vacation is.
So that’s what I did. I haven’t read any emails or answered phone calls or made setlists. I haven’t worked on the Web site or played with a single graphic. I haven’t even picked up my guitar. But now I am back and vacation is over. Now I have to get my mind going again on all things normal life.
What do you do? How do you reengage? Or do you find yourself not actually taking a break?
After 1/2 a lifetime of vacations, I find they’re wonderful tools to reorganize all the chaos built up in my brain, and a good way to settle on big decisions not otherwise easily made during a daily grind. So, when I come back – I try to tweak my process to honor those decisions I made. This year, I’m trying to think of my actions and work with a global perspective – to try and regard everyone, not just those around me.