Climb Mount Rainier.Organize an expedition to the North Pole.
Build a house for Haitian refugees living in New Orleans.
Have a big adventure.
It is not an option or a good idea. It is a must. Your physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing is critical to growing your business. The message here is that getting away—physically and mentally— is good for you and good for your business. Growing a business is not for sissies. In fact growing and developing an organization is like competing in the “Business Olympics”: it is the ultimate challenge, and it attracts the best of the best. If you understand this point and are actively getting away in your life, rock on. But, if you are not getting away, read on. You might learn a few things.
Now, by the term “getting away,” I am not talking about just a vacation. Vacations are good. I recommend them. But to achieve the experience I’m talking about, you must completely remove yourself from familiar surroundings and land in genuinely unfamiliar territory. The goal is to learn and adapt, not just rest and relax.
Three personal examples of this type of “getting away” come to mind: a trip I took to the Caribbean on a sailing yacht, a 12-day hiking trip and 10-day hiking/biking/rafting expedition through the lakes and mountains of Patagonia. These are examples of total immersion adventures.
What does not fit this category of experience is the week I spent at a resort in the American Virgin Islands for my 25th wedding anniversary or the time I spent hiking in the Cascades during summer vacation. Those were fun, relaxing, and rejuvenating experiences, but they were designed to be comfortable and real vacations.
Over the next couple weeks I will describe the value of "getting away"
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