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Something worth knowing if you run a business: the part of your brain responsible for big-picture, strategic insight barely switches on when you're heads-down in execution mode.
It only activates when you're actually at rest. So when you skip the break to "keep momentum going," you might be cutting off the exact mental state that produces your best ideas.
This isn't about working less for its own sake — it's about understanding when your brain is actually capable of the strategic thinking your business needs from you. I dig into the research behind this in Permission to Unplug, out for pre-order now.
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For six years, I didn't take a real vacation. Not because I couldn't afford it — because I didn't trust the business to run without me in it every single day.
This video is Julie, Marcus, and me in the Bahamas, Mexico, and the Maldives over the last few years. What changed wasn't the destinations. What changed was me — I stopped operating like the business would collapse the second I stepped away, and started building a team and systems that could actually carry it.
That shift is the entire argument of my book, Permission to Unplug: your business should grow because you built leaders under you, not because you never left your desk.
Drop UNPLUG in the comments and I'll send you the first chapter free.
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I used to think the value of a trip was the trip. Three weeks proved me wrong.
We split it into three parts — celebrating our son, time with just Julie, and closing it out with our best friends. Same span of time, three totally different kinds of energy, and every single one of them was better because someone else was in it with me.
That's the thing about experience ROI most founders miss: it's not about the destination. It compounds when you share it. The more people you bring in, the more everyone feeds off each other.
I break this down in Chapter 11 of Permission to Unplug — pre-order link is in the comments.
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