18: No Fakecations Allowed

When someone takes a vacation at your company, (yourself included) it should feel like they don't work there anymore. You should be encouraging them to go completely dark.

Turn their computer off, delete Outlook from their phone, don't check in. 

Go away for real. Be gone. Off your grid.

The whole purpose of a vacation is to get away. To not only be somewhere else entirely, but to think about something else entirely. Work should not be on your mind. Period.

But the reality is that most entrepreneurs end up taking a "fakecation", if they take any time off at all.

When was the last time you actually got to disconnect? I mean for real? 

Not for a weekend, but for weeks. When you didn't feel any guilt or urge to check in and check up on work.

Very few entrepreneurs can claim such a thing nowadays. That's a tragedy, and a recipe for burnout.

Fakecations put you on a leash - you're liable to be yanked back and pulled into work at any moment. 

We all start our business with the idea that we'll be able to get the time off we need. That's supposed to be one of the key benefits. Time off isn't much of a benefit if you never get it. It becomes more like a crappy loan with terrible terms. Plus interest. And worries. Enough is enough.

Just because you own a business doesn't mean that your company should be entitled to ALL of your night's, weekends, or vacations. That's life time. True emergencies are an exception, but those should only happen once or twice a year max.

When your company acts like it owns all of yours (and your employee's time), this breeds a culture of neurotic exhaustion. 

EVERYONE needs a chance to truly get away and reboot. If your employees are denied that, or you deny yourself that, you'll both end up tired and resentful.

Clearly, time off is necessary, but only if you can take it without preoccupying yourself with more work. So, how can you do that as the committed entrepreneur you are? 

Listen to this podcast episode to find out what the definition of "fakecation" is, and why it's time to institute a No Fakecations Allowed policy -

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