12/18/2022 0 Comments 3 days to digest all endings![]() There is one great additional perk, however. So think of my life as a never-ending business trip to fun places. But it’s still quite similar to business travel. And I also really like those places, since they have lots of novelty (similar to ad hoc business travel). I wind up working and spending lots of time in places (similar to commuter business travel). The work never truly lets you unplug for more than maybe 3 days. I have a few businesses now, one of which is running an agency. You turn off the work, and make it your job to relax for a week. Vacation is sort of an iconic 9-5er concept of blowing off work for a week and worrying about nothing more than packing the car and driving to Sanibel Island where, damnit, you’re goingto have fun. I was a lot more motivated to get out in, say, San Diego than I was in, say, Detroit. You have a mental push to carpe as much diem as possible, since you’re choosing your locales.When you go to a place, the immediate novelty wears off and you become more like an expatriate ‘resident.’.Why do I bring this up, when my brand of slow traveling isn’t business traveling? Well, because my life combines elements of both of these things when I’m on the road, all orienting around the fact that I do actually work quite a bit. My Life Isn’t a Constant Vacation - It’s a Vacation Right Outside Whenever I Have Time You burn out seeing the local stuff, and eventually your spare time becomes reading your kindle at the nearby Outback Steakhouse or doing extra work in the hotel bar. ![]() This often means going to the same place or a rotating sequence of same places. That was my life for years, wherein you get on the plane every Sunday night and fly home every Friday night. But to call it vacation would be a stretch. Maybe you even extend the trip for the weekend and bring the family. You work all day, and then you frantically try to go out at night and experience a little local or tourist life. Kinda, sorta-ish, if you don’t travel a lot, I imagine. Every now and then, Mr Spacely comes in and says, “Jetson!!! I need you to fly to Atlanta next month for mandatory compliance training!” The company travel agent then sets you up, and off you go in a middle seat with one stopover on your way to Hartsfield–Jackson and then a Hilton, or whatever. Ad hoc business travel is what most of you can relate to, I’d imagine. Personally, I put business travel into two conceptual buckets: ad hoc business travel and commuter business travel. You’ve done some business travel, haven’t you? So start there when you wonder what it’s like to be an entrepreneurial slow traveler. To understand why I would say my life isn’t constant vacation, let’s start with something to which most of you can probably relate. Adopt This Mental Model: Is Business Travel Vacation? I’m going to answer that in a way that seems to have become a pattern here. And that reminded me of something that people ask me a lot in conversation: Your Life Seems like a Never-Ending Vacation. Last week, I talked about getting a home ready to leave saying that it’s not so hard, and it’s actually like leaving for a long vacation.
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