I am reading the book, "Tribes" by Seth Godin, and I thought I needed to share a piece with you. I highly recommend you check out his work if you haven't already.
"It's four a.m. and I can't sleep. So I'm sitting in the lobby of a hotel in Jamaica, checking my e-mail.
A couple walks by, obviously on their way to bed, having pushed the idea of vacation a little too hard. The woman looks over to me and, in a harsh whisper a little quieter than a yell, says to her friend, 'Isn't that sad? That guy comes here on a vacation and he's stuck checking his e-mail. He can't even enjoy his two weeks off.'
I think the real question-the one they probably wouldn't want to answer-was, 'Isn't it sad that we have a job where we spend two weeks avoiding the stuff we have to do fifty weeks a year?"
This totally impacted my life. I hope it speaks to you.
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