The Pros and Cons of Vacation

Okay, so how can there be any negatives associated with a vacation? Easy, try running a small, growing company where if you take time off, there isn’t a large enough staff to spread your work around so as not to overload any one person. What has this meant for me? It means that for the past eight years my very understanding husband has had to be satisfied with what I fondly refer to as our mini-moon (a 3-day weekend about two hours from our home for our honeymoon), cancelled vacations, a five-week maternity leave where I took calls for work at the hospital, and finally a real two-week honeymoon after we had been married for five years and had had two kids. Better late than never I told him with a smile

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining. If I had to do it all over, I still would have chosen the entrepreneurial path. I don’t believe in having regrets, it’s a waste of energy on things we cannot change. All it really means is that going on vacation stresses me out! Ironic? Yes. Worth it? I’ll let you know in two weeks when I get back from China!

When I have an internet connection, I will post a blog; meanwhile, Kim, our marketing intern turned full-time employee (yippee!) will be my guest blogger writing about health, nutrition, and a healthy lifestyle. And… Tim, my trusted operations director will start his own blog. Tim will provide a fun contrast to my perspective because he is a single male who also happens to be a stand-up comedian, and who has made some very dramatic changes in his lifestyle these last three years since he has been working with me at Zoe Foods. So stay tuned, we’re going to spice it up with some useful information and interesting perspectives on entrepreneurship, health, nutrition, and work-life balance.