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It's Summer Vacation Time
Author: Sandra Weaver

How to use your mind and imagination to take a vacation or generate creative ideas for your business
IT'S SUMMER VACATION TIME How long has it been since you've had a vacation? I mean a real vacation. Webster defines vacation as: a period away from work or home for the purpose of recreation

Technology has made our work easier. This should give us more leisure time. In fact, just the opposite seems to have happened. While technology has made much of our work easier and more efficient, it has also made it possible for us to work twenty-four hours a day from wherever we happen to be. Many of us take our work with us wherever we go via our laptop and cell phone.
Let's look at the definition of vacation again: a period away from work or home for the purpose of recreation. When we think of recreation, we think of activities which we enjoy such as golf, tennis, bike riding, sailing, spending time at a hobby or attending a ball game. Many of us, while we think about doing those things, find it difficult to set aside the time we would like to pursue them.
What if we were to think of recreation as re-creation, meaning creating again. Getting out of your everyday environment and placing yourself in different surroundings can trigger the mind to create new ideas. If you are sitting on the beach watching the waves and the seagulls rather than sitting in your office, your mind may generate different thoughts. If you hold a business meeting in a park filled with playing children rather than in the boardroom, you may get a different outlook on the issues being discussed.
By taking our mind off work issues and focusing on simply enjoying a game of golf or a ball game, we allow our minds to

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